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== Goals == | == Goals == | ||
Kiwix is a software which works and although we still try to improve it, its big challenge is currently to be known by people. That why we need to bring Kiwix to people and organization as near as possible. | Kiwix is a software which works and although we still try to improve it, its big challenge is currently to be known by people. That why we need to bring Kiwix to people and organization as near as possible. | ||
On Windows, most of the work we need to do is communication work, people are used to donwload software directly from the Web, so we still need to convince them to do it. But, with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU/Linux_distribution Linux distributions], this works differently: it's difficult to install softwares which are not in the internal software catalog (or called "official repository"). That's why is really important to have Kiwix in those software catalogs for the most used Linux distributions, and this is the main purpose of this project. | |||
Here are the details: | |||
* Package for [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_%28operating_system%29 Ubuntu] + official repository | * Package for [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_%28operating_system%29 Ubuntu] + official repository | ||
* Package for [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedora Fedora] + official repository | * Package for [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedora Fedora] + official repository | ||