{"id":375,"date":"2024-06-05T06:39:33","date_gmt":"2024-06-05T11:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swordsearcher.com\/blog\/?p=375"},"modified":"2024-06-05T06:39:33","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T11:39:33","slug":"guide-to-running-swordsearcher-on-linux-operating-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swordsearcher.com\/blog\/guide-to-running-swordsearcher-on-linux-operating-systems\/375\/","title":{"rendered":"Guide to running SwordSearcher on Linux operating systems"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swordsearcher.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.swordsearcher.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-1024x640.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.swordsearcher.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-1024x640.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.swordsearcher.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/www.swordsearcher.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-768x480.png 768w, https:\/\/www.swordsearcher.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-1200x750.png 1200w, https:\/\/www.swordsearcher.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image.png 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">SwordSearcher 9.1 running on Ubuntu 22.04<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve written a <a href=\"https:\/\/forums.swordsearcher.com\/threads\/guide-to-running-swordsearcher-on-linux-operating-systems-updated-june-2024.4351\/\">Guide to Running SwordSearcher on Linux Operating Systems<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While SwordSearcher is designed for Microsoft Windows, many SwordSearcher users, or potential SwordSearcher users, have asked if there is a version for Linux operating systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is no Linux version of Windows, and you can view the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swordsearcher.com\/requirements.html\">system requirements here<\/a>. What I recommend is using a virtual machine like VirtualBox to run Windows applications on Linux, but that is not always an option for people and does require one to purchase a Windows license.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, it is technically possible to run SwordSearcher on a Linux system <em>without<\/em> a virtual machine, using a tool called <em>Wine<\/em>, which stands for &#8220;Wine is not an emulator.&#8221; Wine is a way to run some Windows applications on operating systems like Ubuntu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Getting SwordSearcher to work with Wine is a matter of patience and persistence. While I cannot provide a guarantee of support for using SwordSearcher this way, I have written a guide to setting it up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please see this forum post for the full guide, <strong>and be sure to read all the way to the end for some caveats.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forums.swordsearcher.com\/threads\/guide-to-running-swordsearcher-on-linux-operating-systems-updated-june-2024.4351\/\">Guide to Running SwordSearcher on Linux Operating Systems<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written a Guide to Running SwordSearcher on Linux Operating Systems. While SwordSearcher is designed for Microsoft Windows, many SwordSearcher users, or potential SwordSearcher users, have asked if there is a version for Linux operating systems. There is no Linux version of Windows, and you can view the system requirements here. What I recommend is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swordsearcher.com\/blog\/guide-to-running-swordsearcher-on-linux-operating-systems\/375\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Guide to running SwordSearcher on Linux operating systems&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[46,47,48],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swordsearcher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swordsearcher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swordsearcher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swordsearcher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swordsearcher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.swordsearcher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":378,"href":"https:\/\/www.swordsearcher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions\/378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swordsearcher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swordsearcher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swordsearcher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}