![]() There are other languages available, but they have not had the same This isģ0,000 articles from May 2009 and is a wonderful resource. Available now (April 2010) is an excellentĬollection of english articles, selected for school use and painstakinglyĪs wikipedia_en_wp1_0.7_30000+_05_2009_beta3.zim. It appears in Applicationsįinally, you will need a zim file as a target for your reader. The reader under linux is called kiwix, and you can use the File -> Package, let me know and I will get the files up on sourceforge if Xulrunner-dev, zlib1g-dev, libmicrohttpd-dev in addition to the Libxapian-dev (for search), libbz2-dev, libicu-dev, liblzma-dev, Package, 2, and get the requiredĭevelopment packages for your distribution. If you are running something other than Ubuntu 10.04, you have slightly All these packages are in the lucid repositories. Which will take care of those dependencies, and finish installing kiwixįor you. That is fixable by running this :- sudo aptitude install libicu42 libxapian15 xapian-tools xulrunner-1.9 zlib1g libbz2-1.0 liblzma1 libmicrohttpd5 Xapian-tools, xulrunner-1.9, zlib1g, libbz2-1.0, It will undoubtedly complain that some or all of libicu42,libxapian15, If youĪre running 10.04, download this file and install it with sudo dpkg -i On sourceforge you will also find a deb for the very latest Ubuntu Need to unzip that file under your “Program Files” directory, and createĪ launcher for your desktop pointing to “ Program Files/kiwix/kiwix.exe” Linux Sourceforge above - where you will find. To install the Windows reader, you will need to download it from Both readers below can be downloaded from Linux, these are stored at ~/.in case youĪre interested. This can take quite a long time,īut the results are saved on disk and you do not need to do it again. On the first time you access a zim file, the reader will offer to index Top-left to allow you to choose a zim file. Zim file to read - there is a standard File->Open dialog box available with a search box at the top of a display area.These are graphical, client programs that appear similar to a web browser There are two supported platforms for the reader, Windows and Linux. It is simple (one file), and optimised to run on really small It is compressed (LZMA), with fast resolution of inter-article Standardised file format to store Wiki content efficiently for offline Kiwix is opening that up, via its offlineĪbout kiwix - this article is an effort to tell other people how to do ![]() Wikimedia projects, including the flagship English Wikipedia, haveīeen restricted in access to people with internet access. ![]()
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