Read your scriptures on your computer, distraction free.
OpenGospel is a tool to read the Standard Works (The King James Version of the Bible, The Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants and Pearl of Great Price.) It was inspired by the application "Gospel Library". Sadly, Gospel Library does not have a GNU/Linux port. That's why I started this project. The goal of this project is to bring an open source and redistributable set of scriptures that works on Unix-like systems.
In theory, anything that works with Python and GTK 3. OpenGospel has only been tested on a variety of GNU/Linux distributions, Including:
- Ubuntu Mate 16.04
- Kubuntu 16.04
- Arch Linux (XFCE, LXDE, and GNOME)
- Linux Mint XFCE
Wayland is fully supported.
Offline functionality is achieved by having local HTML files, which OpenGospel reads from using Webkit.
The following content is available offline:
- The entire standard works from scriptures.nephi.org generated using the scriptures html generator script at https://github.com/jgibbons94/scriptures-html-generator
All other content must be viewed through LDS.org at the moment.
First use:
- Install Python 3, WebKitGTK (The latest version), and Python GObject from your distribution's repositories.
- Download and extract OpenGospel
- Open a terminal
- Change to the directory you unpacked OpenGospel
- Run chmod +x scriptures.py
- Run by typing ./scriptures.py
Every other use:
- Open a terminal
- Change to the directory you unpacked OpenGospel
- Run by typing ./scriptures.py
- Take a look at Issues page and help resolve them.
- Test OpenGospel on other operating systems and distributions.
- Test for bugs.
- Create packages (.deb, .rpm, etc...)