The developers of Kiwix, an offline Wikipedia reader, had a problem in
the .deb package of Kiwix 0.9 beta1, as delivered via Ubuntu's Personal
Package Archive: Kiwix simply would not launch at all.
Emmanuel Engelhart, Kiwix developer, believes his team just fixed it
(thanks to some troubleshooting they and I did at Wikimania).
Can someone on Ubuntu install Kiwix 0.9 beta2 via the Ubuntu PPA and
verify that it launches?
http://www.kiwix.org/index.php/Ubuntu_PPA has
the directions -- ppa:kiwixteam/ppa is the repository, as you can see on
https://launchpad.net/~kiwixteam/+archive/ppa .
(And if you're interested in testing Kiwix more thoroughly, you can join
the Kiwix testers' mailing list at
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kiwix-testing . Kiwix is
cross-platform and needs testers on Windows, Macintosh & Linux.)
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Sumana Harihareswara
Volunteer Development Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation