net installation for BibleTime


(1) To configure the Bookshelf Manager, go to Settings > Bookshelf Manager in the toolbar and select Install/Update Works.

(2) Click the Add Library button. In the Dialog Box that opens:

      (a) Enter a Caption for the Library, for example: Bible.org
      (b) Leave the Type set for remote, and enter: ftp.bible.org in the Server text box.
      (c) Enter /sword/ in the Path text box and then click OK.


(3) Choose ~/.sword from the Select Bookshelf Path dropdown list. Note: if you install your modules in another location make sure that you have the proper file permissions to read and modify that directory's contents.

(4) Click the Connect to Library button.

(5) You may either download all of the modules in a general catagory by ticking the selection boxes, or you may expand the trees and make individual module selections.  We recommend that you first install netfree - this contains only the first three notes for each chapter, but is adequate for evaluation.  You may also wish to try netnotesfree, which is a commentary module and nettext which is the text only with footnotes shown as number markers.

(6) Click the Install Works button.

If you wish to install the premium version that contains all the notes, you will first need to purchase the unlock key from our shop.  The same key unlocks both net and netnotes, and by this time, having evaluated the free versions, you will know what you need.
When you have finished downloading the Premium net and NetNotes modules, you will need to provide a Cipher key to unlock them.

See the *Note* below after unlocking the modules in Bibletime:

      (a) From the Main Bibletime Window, expand the Bibles > English tree in the Bookshelf side panel. Right mouse click on the net Bible entry, and select unlock this work from the pop-up context menu. Enter your Cipher key in the dialog box, and click OK.

      (b) Scroll down in the Main Bibletime Window Bookshelf side panel, and expand the Commentaries > English tree, and repeat the unlocking procedure for the netnotes module.


You may have to quit and restart in some versions of Bibletime for the changes to take effect.

*Note*: Bibletime only uses the contents of the .conf file or the unlock dialog as input - it does NOT update the contents of the .conf file. See the feature request 1461085. It stores the cipher key in ~/.kde/share/config/bibletimerc.

If you wish to use the Premium net modules with other sword Project frontends like Gnomesword or Jsword, you will have to edit the configuration files ~/.sword/mod.d/net.conf and ~/.sword/mod.d/netnotes.conf. Just enter your key number with no extra spaces on the line in those files that begins with: CipherKey=. For example:

      BlockType=Book
      CipherKey=9999FFfF9999FfFF
      CompressType=ZIP


In either Nautilus or Konqueror select View > Show Hidden Files. Navigate to the .conf files and right click on them. Select a text editor like gedit or kedit from the pop-up context dialog. Enter your key number and File > Save your changes.

You may wish to backup your net.conf and netnotes.conf files. If you delete your .kde settings after a KDE version upgrade, or re-install the sword modules for any reason they will be lost or overwritten.

If you are an advanced user and prefer to use the raw zipfiles, then download and open the zip file from one of the links below. Make sure that the box is checked to allow unzipping into the correct directories as these do not yet exist in your installation. Make sure too that the button is checked to extract all files.

netfree is downloaded from http://www.bible.org/download/netbible/swordproject/netfree.zip
netnotesfree is downloaded from http://www.bible.org/download/netbible/swordproject/netnotesfree.zip
and nettext
is downloaded from http://www.bible.org/download/netbible/swordproject/nettext.zip.

The for-pay netnotes module is at http://www.bible.org/download/netbible/swordproject/netnotes.zip.

and the for-pay net module is at
http://www.bible.org/download/netbible/swordproject/net.zip

After you have carried out a manual install of 'for-pay' modules, you will need to insert the unlock key manually into net.conf or netnotes.conf as shown above.



Acknowledgements to hwilkerson for the above instructions.