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There are many way to deploy kiwix over network of using removable mass storage solution like DVDs or USB sticks. Here are a few remarks: | There are many way to deploy kiwix over network of using removable mass storage solution like DVDs or USB sticks. Here are a few remarks: | ||
* ''Kiwix works without installation'', so you do not need to install it on the system (with administrator permission) to have a 100% working solution. Copy the data somewhere and the hard-disk and it will work. The only advantages to install it, is to have it for all users having an account on the computer and have nice icons in the application menu or associated to the ZIM files. | * '''Kiwix works without installation''', so you do not need to install it on the system (with administrator permission) to have a 100% working solution. Copy the data somewhere and the hard-disk and it will work. The only advantages to install it, is to have it for all users having an account on the computer and have nice icons in the application menu or associated to the ZIM files. | ||
* ''Take care to the OS'', OSes have their own restrictions and specificities. For example, this is not possible to have a portable version (everything running on a DVD/USB stick) with OSX, because for OSX, we only have a dmg file. On Linux, you can not really make a portable version because, removable storage are per default mounted with -noexe permission, so you will have to copy everything to the harddisk. | * '''Take care to the OS''', OSes have their own restrictions and specificities. For example, this is not possible to have a portable version (everything running on a DVD/USB stick) with OSX, because for OSX, we only have a dmg file. On Linux, you can not really make a portable version because, removable storage are per default mounted with -noexe permission, so you will have to copy everything to the harddisk. See next point to get more informations about GNU/Linux. | ||
* '''On GNU/Linux, this is unusual to install software not coming from the software repository'''. So we (still) do not provide a method to install kiwix (the static version available online for download) with content on a GNU/Linux system. We recommand to use the packages if possible and copy the "[[Build_a_DVD#File_structure|data]]" directory to /usr/[local/]share/kiwix/ | |||
* ''Take care to architectures''. All kiwix binaries available to download on the Web site are statically linked binaries compiled for x86 32 architectures. All of them should work also on x86 64 architectures (for GNU/Linux: as long as the standart libs in 32 bits are installed). | * ''Take care to architectures''. All kiwix binaries available to download on the Web site are statically linked binaries compiled for x86 32 architectures. All of them should work also on x86 64 architectures (for GNU/Linux: as long as the standart libs in 32 bits are installed). | ||
= Getting Support & Assistance = | = Getting Support & Assistance = | ||