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festgreifaah

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Registered: 2006-06-12

Posts: 51

How can I use wikipedia offline?

Does anybody know a way to have wikipedia on your computer?
I'm running arch64 on a Laptop. Since I'm working mobile, I don't have a permanent internet connection.

The german wikipedia has a DVD for offline use, but it's for windows. They say, Linux users can run it using wine.

So, does anybody know how to run wine on arch64?
Or has someone an idea to run wikipedia offline?

brazzmonkey

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From: between keyboard and chair

Registered: 2006-03-16

Posts: 818

Re: How can I use wikipedia offline?

i suppose you'd need a so-called "web crawler". i don't know if such thing exists on linux, but googling a bit here's what i found :
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/linux- … linux.html

wget has some crawler functionality. To download an entire site, try "wget -rp http://www.site.tld/". It has more options, though. Check "wget --help".

hope this helps

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Dusty

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From: Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada

Registered: 2004-01-18

Posts: 5,986

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Re: How can I use wikipedia offline?

I believe wikipedia has a dump of their database posted somewhere. (its large). It might be possible to take that database and set it up with a local mediawiki installation.

Dusty

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Chman

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Registered: 2006-01-31

Posts: 169

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Re: How can I use wikipedia offline?

Maybe this ?

brazzmonkey

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From: between keyboard and chair

Registered: 2006-03-16

Posts: 818

Re: How can I use wikipedia offline?

i suppose you'd need a so-called "web crawler".

Please do not use a web crawler

woops

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tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: How can I use wikipedia offline?

Slightly OT, but you might like to remind whoever's responsible for that German Windows-only CD that there are other OSes.

AndyRTR

Developer

From: Magdeburg/Germany

Registered: 2005-10-07

Posts: 1,641

Re: How can I use wikipedia offline?

All this here is arch64 independend!

Dusty

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From: Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada

Registered: 2004-01-18

Posts: 5,986

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Re: How can I use wikipedia offline?

All this here is arch64 independend!

Not the wine question. Otherwise I'd have moved it.

Dusty

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AndyRTR

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From: Magdeburg/Germany

Registered: 2005-10-07

Posts: 1,641

Re: How can I use wikipedia offline?

I missed that. Wine is not yet ported. You will have to play with 32bit chroots or multilib stuff that we don't support.