All:
e-Sword 8.0.6 was released yesterday.
I installed it on Ubuntu 8.10 (64 bit) with Wine 1.0.7. There were a couple of error messages, during the install, but it appears to operate correctly.
I originally installed it using the current version of WINE. That resulted in the text in the resources not being displayed. I had to install that version of Wine, and manually install 1.0.7.
jonathon