That ppa is the one that hasn't been updated in almost 2 years. So the version of sword in it is 1.6.1 not 1.7.2
I'm interested in sword not a front end. I'm on ubuntu 12.04 because that is the current long term support version (LTS). God bless, Daniel Hughes On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 2:25 AM, Barry Drake <bdr...@crosswire.org> wrote: > On 26/02/14 10:38, Daniel Hughes wrote: >> >> I am trying to build SWORD on ubuntu 12.04. I am a c# develop so have >> no experience with building cpp/c applications > > > You might also want to look up: > https://launchpad.net/~pkgcrosswire/+archive/ppa > > The information I gave earlier will only build the engine. You would then > need to build one of the front ends. You can get the lot ready built from > the above URL. Do you have a special reason for staying with such an old > version of Ubuntu? I'm currently running 14.04 which is now very stable and > almost ready for release. > > > God bless, Barry. > > _______________________________________________ > sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page