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I decided I want to run Kiwix as a separate user for security: # adduser -D kiwix # -D disables password so only root can su to kiwix This will make it possible to add packages from the testing repository by appending to the package name.

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If you don't already have the testing repo then you can add it as a tagged repository by adding the following line to /etc/apk/repositories (feel free to use your mirror of choice): ContentsĪs of writing, Kiwix is only available on Alpine via the testing repository (check here if you're on a different distro w/o a Kiwix package).

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Although some advice is provided for other Linux distributions, you'll need to know how to work with your package manager and your init system in order to follow along on another distro. This post provides instructions for setting up Kiwix on an Alpine Linux system. Your internet may go down, you may plan to be in a place that doesn't have internet at all, your internet may be censored, you might not want your ISP or government knowing (when) you are accessing Wikipedia, you might not want Wikipedia themselves to know what articles you are reading, or you might just want to be *cool*. There are multiple reasons one may want to access Wikipedia locally. Even the design of this blog is pretty clearly influenced by Wikipedia. According to my browser history I have visited 70 Wikipedia articles this week (only in qutebrowser, I have w3m and Firefox set to discard history, so the true number is probably quite a bit higher).

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The latest Zimcheck has already been integrated in our Zimfarm and its new machine readable output can now be checked in our (currently being built) CMS.įrom a more general point of view, improving the Zim-tools is essential to allow hackers to easily deal with the ZIM files and maybe even produce their own.Simple headless Kiwix setup for offline Wikipedia AN3223's Blog Simple headless Kiwix setup for offline Wikipedia This new release is an important milestone in our global QA effort around ZIM files.

Compiled zimsearch binary only if libzim is compiled with xapian.

Fix issue where zimdump crash depending of the stored path of redirection.

Add an option to create html redirect insteal of symlink.

zimdump now print the favicon and mainentry path instead of the index.

We are now always creating zim files with zstd

Add option `-J` (–threads) to set the number of threads to use.

Add an option `-j` to not create fulltext index.Support new protocols xmpp, news and urn.Improve performance of detection of the kind of url.Add an option to check for redirection loops.Make zimcheck print json output with option `–json`.Do not use the extension of file as mimetype.Do not allow zimwriterfs to overwrite an existing zim file.Along with support for libzim7 and major improvements to the zimcheck tool here is the changelog: It has been almost a year since we began working on this new release. The generated file can be opened with a ZIM reader Kiwix is one example, but there are others.Ī few other are provided but are of less value for most of uses. The result will contain all the files of the local directory compressed and merged in the ZIM file. Zimwriterfs creates ZIM files from a locally-stored directory containing “self-sufficient” HTML content (with pictures, javascript and stylesheets). Zimdump inspects or dumps (part of) a ZIM file. It provides many features to secure that ZIM entries are proper and properly linked. Zimcheck verifies that a given ZIM file is not corrupted.

The most famous / most popular tools are: Zim-tools is the Swiss-army knife for manipulating ZIM files and is actually a suite of command line tools (more info on building and manipulating zim files on the openZIM project).

After announcing the libzim7 release a month ago, we are proud to follow-up with the release of version 3.0.0 of the Zim-tools.

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