How to Install Quran researching tool (zekr) and/or Gnomesword (bible program)

Quran install:

Zekr is an open platform Quran study tool for simply browsing and researching on the Holy Quran. It is a Quran-based project, planned to be a universal, open source, and cross-platform application to perform most of the usual refers to Quran. The main idea is to build an as generic as possible platform to accept different Islamic resources.

Currently Zekr has English, Persian, French, German, Arabic, Indonesian, Russian, Dutch, Kurdish, Malay, Turkish and Urdu built-in language packs. In addition, it includes English, Persian, and Russian Quran translations.

• Make sure that Sun JRE is the default JRE (zekr also works with the new version of gij).

• Run the following command in the terminal:

        sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

• Add The following line at the end of the file:

        deb http://siahe.com/zekr/apt feisty main

• Add the GPG key

        wget -q http://siahe.com/zekr/apt/zekr.debian.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -

• Run the following commands in the terminal:

        sudo aptitude update
       sudo aptitude install zekr
       sudo aptitude install ttf-farsiweb ttf-arabeyes ttf-me-quran ttf-scheherazade

• If you are upgrading from a previous installed version of zekr, to use the new font configuration of zekr run the following command in the terminal:

        mv ~/.zekr ~/.zekr-backup

• For more info see http://siahe.com/zekr/apt/index.html

Bible install

Step 1: Open terminal and enter:

       sudo aptitude install gnomesword sword-language-pack-en sword-text-web

This installs the english version of the program. If you require other languages type:

       sudo apt-cache search bible

Take a look at the sword-language-pack's and the sword-text's for additional languages and install as needed. Gnomesword is found under Applications-Accessories

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