Xowa

xowa is a desktop application that can read Wikimedia Foundation wikis offline.

Installation
XOWA is a desktop Java application and has its own installation requirements.

To install the binaries, see the readme.txt file at https://github.com/gnosygnu/xowa/read

To install from source, do the following:


 * Download the source from gerrit
 * Navigate to the Git repository for XOWA
 * Click "Clone or download" and then "Download ZIP". This will download the entire tree as a .zip archive
 * Unpack the archive on your hard drive.
 * When you're done, you should have a directory called /home/your_user_name/xowa/400_xowa as well as many others. (Windows / Mac users: adjust your path as necessary)
 * Load the project in Eclipse
 * Do "File -> Switch Workspace" to /home/your_user_name/xowa/
 * Select all projects and do "File -> Refresh"
 * (workaround for v0.8.3) Eclipse will report build path problems.
 * Create an empty folder for /home/your_user_name/xowa/110_gfml/xtn
 * Select all projects and do "File -> Refresh" again
 * The project should now compile
 * Setup the application
 * xowa uses files that are present in the binaries only (xowa.gfs; image files). These will be added to gerrit in a future checkin.
 * For now, setup the application
 * Download 'xowa_app_linux_v*.*.*.*.zip' from https://github.com/gnosygnu/xowa/releases
 * Unzip to '/home/your_user_name/xowa/'. When you are done you should have a file called '/home/your_user_name/xowa/xowa_linux.jar' as well as many others
 * Run the source in Eclipse
 * Go to Run -> Debug Configurations -> Xowa_main -> Program Arguments
 * Add an argument for "--root_dir /home/your_user_name/xowa/"
 * Click on Debug

xowa should now run.