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Hi all,

I'm trying to get Evopedia working but I'm not succeeding. It is an program to read wikipedia offline. I thought it would be a great way to have some information when on holiday where roaming is expensive.
http://my-maemo.com/software/applica...to=1104&faq=33

I installed the package and downloaded the Dutch version of the dump on this site: (http://www.reitwiessner.de/openmoko/evopedia.html)
saved the .squashfs file on my mmc card.

When I run the program it opens the browser and asks me to select the location of the wikipediadump. I found the media/mmc1 folder where the file should be but nothing happens.

Anyone got it working?

Regards Ruud

You said "where the file should be", was it there or not? If it was there, did you select it properly?

without squashfs-support it will take hours to extract via unsquashfs (in easy debian for example) because of too many subfolders in the dump...

The file is there, although the n900 doesn't recognize its size.

so it seems I have to unsquash the file to a folder, and that will be the folder to select in the reader. How do I unsquash? I assume it's similar to unzip and unrar, but being an almost total linux noob I don't even know how to do that. Is there a line of code to submit in the xterminal?

in easy-debian (or on your desktop computer) apt-get install squashfs-tools. then run: unsquashfs -d <Foldername> wikipedia.squashfs

The package currently in extras-devel does not work with squashfs-dumps (they were used in version 0.2.x). Working dumps will be available at http://wiki.maemo.org/Evopedia. Please be patient! ;-)

I'll try to make a step by step tutorial for this:

1) I downloaded evopdedia from the repository

2) I downloaded a wikipedia.squashfs file from I http://www.reitwiessner.de/openmoko/evopedia.html

3) Put the wikipedia.squash file in the folder user/ the n900

4) downloaded easy debian, installed it, rebooted. URL="http://wiki.maemo.org/Easy_Debian"]http://wiki.maemo.org/Easy_Debian[/URL]

5) installed unsquashfs by typing in easy debian. seemed to install correctly.

6) in easy debian typed to get to the memorycard.

7) typed in ('wiki' being the folder i want the files in)

It then starts extracting a lot of files, (980224) But for every file it tries to extract it gives the message
after 5hours only around 1% was done. so I aborted.

edit: I guess i have to be patient

i guess, the unsquashed fs is not useable on a fat partition (because of too many subfolders, symlinks and missing ids). Maybe using another filesystem for the image would be a solution?

The first German Wikipedia dump is now available. Some articles seem to be missing, but that should not be a real problem. Please try it out and have fun!

Note that you need evopedia version 2.99 (or 3.0) installed.

can you make an english version as well? and upload it as a torrent? for some reason I had a problem downloading the other 7gig file on my n900.