On 07/08/2012 02:58, M K Yadava IFS wrote:
Dear Emmanuel,
Our team tried installing kiwix etc in Ubuntu 12.04. After 5 days of
frustrated effort, he left it. Further, for every PC/laptop one has to
repeat the process (which means I need to get 27000 iterations of this
long exercise).
It has been for last two years that we are trying to provide offline wiki
content to our children, but we have failed. I was told that installing is
breeze on MS Windows. This was a real painful surprise for me. The likes
of Google and Yahoo have done it in the past (all their innovative
applications are launched for MS Windows, and then they plan for the next
millennium, if possible, a migration for LInux users!!!) We all have seen
and known it. I feel like saying "Eu tu, Brute?" to wikimedia at this
point of time.
Could somebody come up with a solutions. We have lost the chance this
time. may be hoping something better next time, if there is going to be
one...
Yours,
MK Yadava
Dear M K Yadava,
As indicated on the dedicated page on the Kiwix Website, Ubuntu does not
provide the mandatory "xulrunner" package anymore. For this reason we do
not provide anymore, at least for now, packages for recent Ubuntu
releases for this reason:
http://www.kiwix.org/index.php/Ubuntu_PPA
You have two options left:
* Compiling and installing Kiwix by yourself, following the standard gnu
autotools approach, from the source:
http://www.kiwix.org/index.php/Compilation
* Download the static compiled version (from the homepage), unpack it
and start the script "kiwix". For this version, we do not have an
installer (we have a feature request for that:
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=3193697&g…)atid=873518).
So you will have to make a small installation script on your own. If
this is the key problem, I can make an effort to fix that for the next
release.
As this seemed to be a particular issue, I propose you to continue this
discussion privately per email or on the bug tracker.
I provide an active support to Kiwix. Please use our bug tracker our
write-me directly:
*
http://reportabug.kiwix.org
*
http://requestafeature.kiwix.org
If I do not have give you the answer you needed, please tell me more about:
* What you do
* What you obtain
* What you wanted to obtain
Regards
Emmanuel