Python packages for offline Wiki

[Smidra]

Hello,
I am struggling to get an offline Wikipedia on my PW2. Epub or Mobi Is too limited so I figured I need to read directly from a ZIM file. I would like to try running a local miniwebserver with ZIMply Python package. (https://openzim.org/wiki/Readers) Then connect to it with a browser.

I however have no idea how to install the package on my Kindle.

When I try with Kterm I install pip with ensurepip but am unable to install the package due to 'low disk space' even though I have plenty of free space.

Is this even the right way to do this?
How does one install a new Python module?

Thanks for any help.


(Searching the forum did not help https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...ighlight=Numpy )

[NiLuJe]

I vaguely remember pointing someone towards this in the past, but, basically, read the Kobo version of my Python packages, it includes a section about setting up pip at the very end.

(Also, thread moved to the Dev forum).

[Smidra]

Thanks for the speedy reply. With your help I was able to make pip work. Unfortunately ZIMply has a dependency which is a Python C module - and that gets stuck in loop when installing since there is no C compiler on the kindle. I have no clue how to solve this problem.

On the forum i found some people on Kobo made kiwix-serve work. (https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=276219)

So I tried to make kiwix-serve work on kindle. I downloaded the armel package from Debian backports. I copied all dynamicaly linked libraries but there are still some (cca 25) errors silmilar to this:

./kiwix-serve: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.28` not found (required vz /usr/lib/...)

So the linking was not successful. (My first time anyway...) (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/...2-28-not-found)

Surely there must be some way to read a ZIM file on kindle, however I don't know what to try next.