ubuntu stated as reason that it is too much work to maintain xulrunner for the long term support versions: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2011-May/033229.html
i am wondering how debian handled the challenge of the rapid, and sometimes incompatible releases? rupert On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 6:17 PM, Emmanuel Engelhart <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear MK Yadava > > Like indicated on our wiki, we haven't delivered Ubuntu packages anymore > since Ubuntu 11.10. The reason is that Canonical decided to delete the > xulrunner package from its software center: > http://www.kiwix.org/index.php/Ubuntu_PPA > > You need the static version of Kiwix (the link is the 32bits version, check > if you do not need the 64bits version): > http://sourceforge.net/projects/kiwix/files/0.9_rc2/kiwix-0.9-rc2-linux-i686.tar.bz2/download > > We will work soon on a solution and try to reintroduce somehow Kiwix, not > only on our PPA, but also in the official Ubuntu Software Center. > > Kind regards > Emmanuel > > On 12/30/2012 06:14 PM, M K Yadava IFS wrote: >> >> Dear All, >> tried installing kiwix on ubuntu 12.04. Hit the following errors : >> " >> W: Failed to fetch >> >> http://ppa.launchpad.net/kiwixteam/ppa/ubuntu/dists/precise/main/source/Sources >> 404 Not Found >> >> W: Failed to fetch >> >> http://ppa.launchpad.net/kiwixteam/ppa/ubuntu/dists/precise/main/binary-i386/Packages >> 404 Not Found >> >> E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old >> ones used instead. >> welcome@welcome-Lenovo-E49:~$ sudo apt-get install kiwix >> Reading package lists... Done >> Building dependency tree >> Reading state information... Done >> E: Unable to locate package kiwix >> " >> >> Yours, >> MK Yadava >> --------------------------- >> Please exchange editable Office documents only in ODF Format. No other >> format is acceptable. Sending such information in other formats is at your >> own risk. Please be assured that non ODF formats will not be opened. >> >> To get a free editor supporting ODF, please visit >> http://www.openoffice.org/ >> --------------------------------------- >> Visit my blogs at http://letsbetteroursociety.blogspot.com/ >> ------------------------------------------------ >> >>> Dear all, >>> >>> Thanks to Emmanuel and others for their work in making Kiwix even better! >>> >>> We need to work on updating content, as suggested here: >>> http://sourceforge.net/p/kiwix/feature-requests/479/ >>> >>> I would really like to work on preparing our next release of the English >>> Wikipedia (called Version 0.9), but I need some technical help in >>> preparing the collection. User:CBM has done this in the past, but he is >>> unable to do this now. Can anyone here help out? I believe that some >>> knowledge of Perl and the WP:1.0 bot may be needed. CBM has offered to >>> help in teaching a new person. >>> >>> Many thanks, >>> Martin (User:Walkerma) >>> >>> Martin A. Walker >>> Department of Chemistry >>> SUNY College at Potsdam >>> Potsdam, NY 13676 USA >>> +1 (315) 267-2271 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Offline-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/offline-l >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Offline-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/offline-l > > > > _______________________________________________ > Offline-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/offline-l _______________________________________________ Offline-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/offline-l
