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However, as I was messing around, I noticed that the Kobo detected the ZIM wikipedia files I loaded on my SD card and added it to the library and I could load the wikipedia articles too.
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Now place the following script at /etc/service/kiwix/run (on other distros your service directory may be elsewhere like /var/service/): #!/bin/sh -eĮxec chpst -u "kiwix:$(id -Gn kiwix | tr ' ' ':')" kiwix-serve -port=8000 /home/kiwix/*.Hey everyone, so I have been trying out a few guides to load wikipedia offline on the Kobo Aura by using kiwix-serve, but I never got it to work.
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On Alpine you can easily set up runit like so: # apk add runit runit-openrc You'll probably want to start Kiwix as a service on boot. Now open a web browser and point it to and you should hopefully be greeted with the Kiwix home page, with the ability to search for Wikipedia articles and read them. Test kiwix on the newly acquired ZIM files: $ kiwix-serve -port=8000 /home/kiwix/*.zim rw-r-r- 1 kiwix kiwix 443.0M Oct 6 19:22 /home/kiwix/wikipedia_en_computer_nopic_2021-09.zim Running Kiwix The curl command ended up looking like this: # don't run this command verbatim, get up to date links from the resources aboveĪfter a long wait, they are done downloading: $ ls -lh /home/kiwix/*.zim
I decided I want a "mini" version of all of English Wikipedia, a "nopic" version of all computer-related English Wikipedia articles, and a "maxi" version of the top 100 Wikipedia articles. That's 88 gigabytes, so you will likely want to opt for something smaller. Here's a fun one-liner to find the biggest ZIM file: $ w3m -dump |Īwk '$4 > n 'Īs of writing, this outputs: wikipedia_en_all_maxi_2021-03.zim 3 19:26 88082131032 The "maxi" scope consists of whole articles, pictures and all.Īs you can imagine, all of these variables greatly impact the filesize. The "nopic" scope provides whole articles minus any pictures. The "mini" scope provides _only_ lead sections of articles (usually the first 1-4 paragraphs) and the info boxes. The "scope" describes what parts of each article are (not) stored. The "topic" restricts the set of articles to a single topic (e.g., computer, geography, chemistry), which can be "all" for no topic restriction. To find the ZIM file(s) you want, you should understand the format of these filenames: wikipedia_-.zim You can find ZIM files here:ĮDIT: You can find many more ZIM files for other MediaWiki sites (including the Arch Wiki!) here: Now you need ZIM files for Kiwix to actually serve, these files contain the actual Wikipedia articles. The rest of the commands in the post are ran as this "kiwix" user unless otherwise indicated with a preceding # sign.
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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). Simple headless Kiwix setup for offline Wikipedia AN3223's Blog Simple headless Kiwix setup for offline Wikipedia
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