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just answering my own question, but not easy to find!

Tip: The files you download are stored under C:\Users[username]\AppData\Roaming\www.kiwix.org\Kiwix\Profiles[random].default even if you download and run the portable version. It is definitely not ideal as it does not make it fully portable after all. What you can do however is move those downloaded zim files to the directory of the application, and load them from there manually.

In Kiwix, you can see where the files are saved in the option dialog box. If you want to have a "Portable" (on USB) version, go to www.kiwix.org and download a portable/pre-indexed (ZIP) file. You then can just unpack/move it wherever you want. Things are going to become easier in the next months. Thank you for your patience.

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In my Windows 8.1 laptop, running kiwix-desktop_windows_x64_2.0-rc4, the .zim files downloaded from within Kiwix are located in: C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming

In that Roaming folder, as .zim files, I find files such as these:

wiktionary_ja_all_maxi_2019-05.zim

wiktionary_ja_all_maxi_2019-05.zim.meta4

Kiwix seems to require both the .zim and the .meta4 files.

There are also kiwix.session, library.bookmarks.xml, and library.xml files as well in there.

HTH

Shane

The default storage location for the zim files is problematic, as I don't have enough space on my C drive where my AppData\Roaming folder is located, however I have discovered with Kiwix closed I can open a zim file from any location by dragging and dropping it over the kiwix-desktop executable within the kiwix-desktop_windows_x64_2.0-rc2 folder.

I guess the two workarounds are if you want to look a a single zim file. drag it over the kiwix-desktop executable (or create a shortcut to this, which may be more practical); or if you want to run Kiwix as a server with mulitple zim edit the library.xml file and keep a copy of it to overwrite the faulty one for when you need to restart Kiwix.

However, if you want to make the resources available for other people as well, then you need to install kiwix-serve.On Debian and Ubuntu systems, this is just a sudo apt install kiwix-tools in your terminal.

Once you have it installed, all you have to do is to run kiwix-serve -p 8080 your-file-here.zim and your contentpackage is served to anyone who can connect to your machine with a browser over port 8080.

the latest kiwixlib versiob is libkiwix-13.0.0 and not 12

i made some changes in kiwix desktop trying to make it in dark mode and i need to compile it. but it needs the version 13 of libkiwix to compile. i tried with version 12 and i get error.

so i need to compile the libkiwix then install it so as i can install the edited version of the kiwix desktop

i run this command: makepkg

then it downloaded the file and build it

i tried also to install the downloaded file from the software manager: install local packages then choose the downloaded file

now the package manager shows that the version 13 is installed

now i think i should do the same thing with kiwix desktop? i need to download the PKGBUIL then i edit the files and then compile it with makepkg?

EE: Each human should be concretely free to choose his own path in life. To achieve this, most of them need first to emancipate themselves from external and cultural powers. This is what knowledge and education are for.

EE: For developers, the easiest entry points are either Kiwix or openZim on GitHub. We also really need skilled and motivated people in web design, communications, and fundraising. Anyone motivated should get in touch at contact@kiwix.org.

kiwix-serve is a tool for serving ZIM file content over HTTP. It supportsserving a library containing multiple ZIM files. In a large library served by akiwix-serve instance clients can look up/filter ZIM files of interest bywords in their titles and/or descriptions, language, tags, etc.

Welcome page is served under /. By default this is the library page, wherebooks are listed and can be looked up/filtered interactively. However, thewelcome page can be overriden through the --customIndex/-ccommand line option of kiwix-serve.

Returns the entry with path PATH/IN/ZIMFILE from the ZIM file withname ZIMNAME. Currently, this endpoint almost duplicates(with some subtle technical differences) the newer endpoint/content/ZIMNAME/PATH/IN/ZIMFILE. The important difference is that the/raw endpoint guarantees that no server-side processing will be applied tothe returned content, whereas content obtained via the /content endpointmay in the future undergo some processing intended to improve the operation ofthe viewer (e.g. compensating for certain bugs in ZIM creation). Also note that/raw is public, whereas /content isprivate.

Cache busting ofstatic resources is supported via the optional param cacheid. By default,i.e. when the cacheid parameter is not specified while accessing the/skin endpoint, static resources are served as if they were dynamic (i.e.could be different for an immediately repeated request). Specifying thecacheid parameter with a correct value (matching the value embedded in thekiwix-serve instance), makes the returned resource to be presented asimmutable. However, if the value of the cacheid parameter mismatches thenkiwix-serve responds with a 404 HTTP error.

For a kiwix-serve started with a list of ZIM files, ZIM names arederived from the filename by dropping the extension and replacing certaincharacters (spaces are replaced with underscores, and + symbols arereplaced with the text plus). Presence of the-z/--nodatealiases option will create additional names(aliases) for filenames with dates.

This is a unique identifier of a ZIM file designated at its creation timeand embedded in the ZIM file. Certain kiwix-serve operations mayrequire that a ZIM file be referenced through its UUID rather than name.

But when i try to search in kiwix it asks me to create index. Creating index will take huge time and space why doesn't it uses the already created index. I didn't install kiwix i am using the portable version.

kiwix-manage allows to manage the entries of the Kiwix library. The library file is a flat XML file listing ZIM files with all necessary information like id, favicon, date, creator, description, filepath, title, url, etc.

Data injections allow for data that is not included in the container image to be injected at deploy time and are declared using the dataInjections key within a component. Once the specified container is started, Zarf will copy the files and folders from the specified source into the specified container and path.

@zenzen , thanks for the advice. I really appreciate it. When i extracted the zim file from , later on i realized it would create two copies of the images, one that is corrupt and one that works/opens. The ones that work, youzim/zim put in folder "A" and the corrupt mirrors go in folder "H". Have no clue why. But the file paths & files are mirrors & identical. It took some time to figure out that all of them do work, just not the corrupt copies.

NOTE: Because kiwix-serve.service use command docker container startkiwix-serve, so that the container kiwix-serve must already been created bythis command, you can check whether the container is created:

Your version number might be different though. The contents are unpacked to afolder with the same name as the zipped file. I rename this folder kiwix tomake things easier, and then move all my downloaded .zim-files to thisfolder. If you for example download a file called wikipedia.zom and anotherfile called gutenberg.zim, the folder should look like

However, I do see the need for wanting to know where Obsidian maxes out. If you intend to import a lot of pre-existing notes, or notes collections from other people, then totals like 280k notes seem very realistic and the limits need to be understood before you head down this path.

Generally, I would recommend to use attribute paths to install (nix-env -iA attrPath) and update (nix-env -uA attrPath) individual packages as they fix both aforementioned issues. Unfortunately, nix-env does not record the attribute paths so updating all packages with nix-env -u will fall back to package name-based matching.

I saved the list of installed packages (nix-env -q), switched to a pretty old environment generation (from like 1 month ago; nix-env --list-generations & nix-env --switch-generation $gen), ran nix-channel --update and nix-env -u, uninstalled the packages I no longer needed, and installed the packages I saved at the start. Both gimp and kiwix installed with no errors.

Kiwix is a wiki reader with many nice features, including a lightweight http server with user-defined port, and enhanced output formatting to look like the online wikis. You can read your local wikis through the Kiwix program, or run its server, kiwix-serve.exe, and hit it with any web browser on your local network.

To query it with http URLs that Calibre can send, you need to run the kiwix server (called kiwix-serve.exe). You can start it from within Kiwix (menu Tools > Server), or you can run the server directly from a command line, and not run the Kiwix program at all, except for downloading, indexing, and setting up; or just using it as a stand-alone dictionary.

Kiwix-serve.exe (located in kiwixxulrunner) is a command-line utility. You need to run it with several parameters. To make it easy to run, create a shortcut (or run it as a Windows Service; see further below):

All the Kiwix ZIMs are at: download.kiwix.org/ZIM/ConclusionI hope this is helpful. It took me quite a while to stumble upon this solution, and it works quite well, so I wrote an article about it, since no one else has.

You will also need to grab the latest version of kiwix-tools from the kiwix download page, which includes the kiwix-serve program that we will use to run our own local Wikipedia clone.Copy the contents of the sd card to the new one using dd and create a new partition with the remaining space using fdisk, for example. This is where we will put the ZIM archive. 2351a5e196