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Old 03-19-2010, 09:47 AM   #7
Mr. X
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OK, final update of the files for real this time I think...

New instructions:

You still need the five support libraries from the first message. Then decompress OfflineWiki.zip from this message. This completes the install of the program, but you still need the wiki data and the index for it... See the documentation in the original offline.wikipedia package at http://users.softlab.ece.ntua.gr/~tt...iaOffline.html for how to build these yourself. I've put the index files for English Wiktionary and Wikipedia up on my personal web space for the March 2010 dumps of the respective sites. You can grab them to avoid needing to compile and install anything on your local machine (other than bzip2 which most people should have):

Wiktionary:
http://download.wikimedia.org/enwikt...ticles.xml.bz2 -> _offline.wiki/wiktionary/wiki-splits
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~ecronin/tmp/wiktionary-db.zip -> _offline.wiki/wiktionary/db
cd _offline.wiki/wiktionary and run "make splits"
rm _offline.wiki/wiktionary/wiki-splits/enwiktionary-20100310-pages-articles.xml.bz2

Wikipedia:
http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki...ticles.xml.bz2 -> _offline.wiki/wikipedia/wiki-splits
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~ecronin/tmp/wikipedia-db.zip -> _offline.wiki/wikipedia/db
cd _offline.wiki/wikipedia and run "make splits"
rm _offline.wiki/wikipedia/wiki-splits/enwiki-20100312-pages-articles.xml.bz2

Now the bad news. Wikipedia is 5.8GB for the data itself, and another 3GB or so for the index of articles... Meaning it won't fit on an 8GB MicroSD card... So until 16GB cards come down in price a full wikipedia on the DR is probably not practical for most people.
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