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&group_id=175508&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
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