AWB & Ubuntu: Can really someone help? - Wikimedia-l

Fæ

28 Dec 28 Dec

10:39 a.m.

It's been several years since I used AWB for anything serious, precisely because it only runs under Windows. The conventional advice is to run it in a windows emulator, such as Wine, Parallels or Virtualbox. Folks talk about porting it, but I suspect this will never happen. Fae On 28 Dec 2015 10:36, "Tito Dutta" <trulytito(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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In last 2 years I have contacted every help section from AWB talk page, Ubuntu help forum etc. Trying this medium as well: Can someone tell me how to use AWB on Ubuntu? _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>

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Pete Forsyth

8:28 p.m.

I have also managed to make it work under Wine on Ubuntu in the past, but I would stress: this is a HIGHLY frustrating process, it requires many rounds of updates and incantations that add up to literally hours of work. I would not encourage anyone to do it unless they are BOTH already familiar with setting up Wine, AND have a very compelling reason to run it on Linux. My understanding is that while AWB is freely licensed, it is very heavily dependent on Microsoft's proprietary DotNet framework. Getting an up-to-date version of DotNet working under Linux is the real killer. However, AWB is tremendously useful software. In addition to supporting many efforts to improve the quality of wiki content, it can be invaluable in running community-oriented projects. It was a central tool in the 6 week Writing Wikipedia Articles course I have run 4 times, and will run again in the spring. The existence of AWB opens a great many opportunities in addressing the challenges in running projects that could address Wikipedia's social problems. Perhaps this is a good area for an ambitious coder to apply for a Wikimedia grant? Asaf, can you speak to whether that might be a worthwhile proposal, and what kinds of considerations might make it an attractive project to fund? -Pete [[User:Peteforsyth]] On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 2:54 AM, Tito Dutta <trulytito(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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Yes, that's right, Wine, Q4Wine and PlayonLinux don't work. On 28 December 2015 at 16:09, Fæ <faewik(a)gmail.com> wrote:

It's been several years since I used AWB for anything serious, precisely because it only runs under Windows. The conventional advice is to run it in a windows emulator, such as Wine, Parallels or Virtualbox. Folks talk about porting it, but I suspect this will never happen. Fae On 28 Dec 2015 10:36, "Tito Dutta" <trulytito(a)gmail.com> wrote:

In last 2 years I have contacted every help section from AWB talk page, Ubuntu help forum etc. Trying this medium as well: Can someone tell me how to use AWB on Ubuntu? _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>

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David Gerard

8:55 p.m.

I got it to work on Ubuntu 14.04 by approximately this method. It's INCREDIBLY long winded, you have to download about a gigabyte of stuff from Microsoft, one file didn't exist at the listed download site any more and I had to get a questionable copy off someone's "saved stuff" web directory, and after all that a pile of stuff doesn't work properly. *However*, it is usable for real work without getting a Windows box to run it on. On 28 December 2015 at 11:52, Asaf Bartov <abartov(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:

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I have recently been able to make it work under WINE, and have updated the documentation page accordingly[1]. It did take a series of winetricks(1) incantations to get it to work. It's quite brittle. In particular, make sure you're specifying WINARCH=32. A. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Mono_a… On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 2:39 AM, Fæ <faewik(a)gmail.com> wrote:

It's been several years since I used AWB for anything serious, precisely because it only runs under Windows. The conventional advice is to run it in a windows emulator, such as Wine, Parallels or Virtualbox. Folks talk about porting it, but I suspect this will never happen. Fae On 28 Dec 2015 10:36, "Tito Dutta" <trulytito(a)gmail.com> wrote:

In last 2 years I have contacted every help section from AWB talk page, Ubuntu help forum etc. Trying this medium as well: Can someone tell me how to use AWB on Ubuntu? _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>

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Petr Kadlec

9:10 a.m.

On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 9:31 AM, Ilario Valdelli <valdelli(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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AWB is made in C#. C# runs in .NET. .NET is like a virtual machine to abstract the layer of the operating system. .NET runs in Windows doesn't run in Linux based OS.

Not really. Apart from Mono, we have .NET Core <https://dotnet.github.io/> now. (However, I’m not saying AWB will run under either of those options or even that it would be easy to make it work there.) -- [[cs:User:Mormegil | Petr Kadlec]]

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Jane Darnell

28 Dec 28 Dec

11:07 a.m.

I used to use AWB for lists but now I am running on a Mac so I don't have it anymore. I still can generate lists with Catscan though, so you may want to check that tool out if you haven't already. On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 11:35 AM, Tito Dutta <trulytito(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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In last 2 years I have contacted every help section from AWB talk page, Ubuntu help forum etc. Trying this medium as well: Can someone tell me how to use AWB on Ubuntu? _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>

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