[SOLVED] Arch Wiki/Documentation for download?

jjforums · 2012-08-10 16:41:49

Is there a way to download entire wiki or something like that, to read it offline? I've tried to set to printable version but nothing changes and seems that I have to download every page, one by one...

Thanks.

Last edited by jjforums (2012-08-10 16:52:18)

x-rix · 2012-08-10 16:44:53

Install arch-wiki-lite, it lets you view and search the wiki files via console.

Alternatively, if you like the html, you could also go with arch-wiki-docs.

jjforums · 2012-08-10 16:51:54

x-rix wrote:

Install arch-wiki-lite, it lets you view and search the wiki files via console.
Alternatively, if you like the html, you could also go with arch-wiki-docs.

Thanks, problem solved.

DSpider · 2012-08-10 19:36:06

Ok... And how do you read it?

b1tgl0w · 2012-08-10 19:54:26

You can read it by opening this file in your web browser:

/usr/share/doc/arch-wiki/html/index.html

DSpider · 2012-08-11 07:43:32

That's pretty cool. Except that you're effectively reading an older version of the wiki.

$ firefox /usr/share/doc/arch-wiki/html/index.html

It's not necessarily a bad thing, but it doesn't really make any sense (to me) why you'd be using a bleeding-edge distribution where you need the internet to download updates from (just like any other Linux distribution or OS, including Windows). Setting up an internet connection from the console is really not as difficult as it sounds. Then you can just run:

$ elinks wiki.archlinux.org

Now if you were in a remote place with very little bandwidth to spare, or the only available ISP is with a fixed GB/month contract... then it could make sense, because these websites are compressed, talking up a fraction of bandwidth of what it would (probably) take to browse them online.

The biggest disadvantage is that you're reading an older snapshot.

tomk · 2012-08-11 10:08:53

Build either package using ABS, then install it. That way, it's only a couple of minutes out of date.

x-rix · 2012-08-11 16:26:17

DSpider, I never used it either because I always had an internet connection; I just had heard of it and it matched what OP asked for.

ATM, the only use I can imagine is if you have a laptop, have installed arch with an ethernet connection and then you have to move somewhere, but haven't set up WLAN yet. I know, pretty far-fetched.

rutgerr · 2012-08-11 18:03:57

x-rix wrote:

DSpider, I never used it either because I always had an internet connection; I just had heard of it and it matched what OP asked for.
ATM, the only use I can imagine is if you have a laptop, have installed arch with an ethernet connection and then you have to move somewhere, but haven't set up WLAN yet. I know, pretty far-fetched.

Or, alternatively, if you have an android device, you can install the AWOL

https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta … LkFXT0wiXQ..

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