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< div id = "siteSub" > From XOWA: the free, open-source, offline wiki application< / div >
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Contents
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< span class = "mw-headline" id = "Download_and_unzip_XOWA" > Download and unzip XOWA< / span >
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Download a package for your operating system from < a href = "https://github.com/gnosygnu/xowa/releases/" rel = "nofollow" class = "external free" > https://github.com/gnosygnu/xowa/releases/< / a > For example, if you're using Windows, you would download < code > xowa_app_windows_v3.1.1.1.zip< / code > .
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Unzip to a folder. See the XOWA Folder section below for possible choices.
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When finished, you will have a file called < code > readme.txt< / code > as well as many other files and directories.
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On < b > Windows< / b > , double-click < code > C:\xowa\xowa.exe< / code >
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On < b > Linux< / b > , open a terminal and run < code > sh /home/Your_Name/xowa/xowa_linux.sh< / code >
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Note that the shell script is a wrapper for < code > java -Xmx256m -jar /home/Your_Name/xowa/xowa_linux.jar< / code >
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On < b > OS X< / b > , open a terminal and run < code > sh /Users/Your_Name/xowa/xowa_macosx.sh< / code >
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Note that the shell script is a wrapper for < code > java -Xmx256m -d32 -XstartOnFirstThread -jar /Users/Your_Name/xowa/xowa_macosx.jar< / code >
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XOWA works from one folder. For the purpose of the instructions throughout this wiki, this folder will be referred to as < code > /xowa/< / code > .
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The table below lists recommended locations by operating system. Note that these are just recommendations: you can use any other folder on your hard drive (or on a flash memory card).
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path of xowa jar
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Windows
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C:\xowa\
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C:\xowa\xowa_windows.jar
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/home/Your_Name/xowa/
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/home/Your_Name/xowa/xowa_linux.jar
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OS X
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/Users/Your_Name/xowa/
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/Users/Your_Name/xowa/xowa_macosx.jar
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< li > < a href = "http://xowa.org/index.html" title = 'Visit the main page' > Main page< / a > < / li >
< li > < a href = "http://xowa.org/screenshots.html" title = 'See screenshots of XOWA' > Screenshots< / a > < / li >
< li > < a href = "http://xowa.org/wiki/home/page/Help/Download_XOWA.html" title = 'Download the XOWA application' > Download XOWA< / a > < / li >
< li > < a href = "http://xowa.org/wiki/home/page/Dashboard/Image_databases.html" title = 'Download offline wikis and image databases' > Download wikis< / a > < / li >
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< h3 > Getting started< / h3 >
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< li > < a href = "http://xowa.org/wiki/home/page/App/Setup/System_requirements.html" title = 'Get XOWA's system requirements' > Requirements< / a > < / li >
< li > < a href = "http://xowa.org/wiki/home/page/App/Setup/Installation.html" title = 'Get instructions for installing XOWA' > Installation< / a > < / li >
< li > < a href = "http://xowa.org/wiki/home/page/App/Import/Simple_Wikipedia.html" title = 'Learn how to set up Simple Wikipedia' > Simple Wikipedia< / a > < / li >
< li > < a href = "http://xowa.org/wiki/home/page/App/Import/English_Wikipedia.html" title = 'Learn how to set up English Wikipedia' > English Wikipedia< / a > < / li >
< li > < a href = "http://xowa.org/wiki/home/page/App/Import/Other_wikis.html" title = 'Learn how to set up other Wikipedias' > Other Wikipedias< / a > < / li >
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< li > < a href = "http://xowa.org/wiki/home/page/Help/About.html" title = 'Get more information about XOWA' > About< / a > < / li >
< li > < a href = "http://xowa.org/wiki/home/page/Help/Contents.html" title = 'View a list of help topics' > Contents< / a > < / li >
< li > < a href = "http://xowa.org/wiki/home/page/Help/Media.html" title = 'Read what others have written about XOWA' > Media< / a > < / li >
< li > < a href = "http://xowa.org/wiki/home/page/Help/Feedback.html" title = 'Questions? Comments? Leave feedback for XOWA' > Feedback< / a > < / li >
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< li > < a href = "http://xowa.org/wiki/home/page/Blog.html" title = 'Follow XOWA' ' s development process ' > Current< / a > < / li >
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< li > < a href = "http://dumps.wikimedia.org/backup-index.html" title = "Get wiki datababase dumps directly from Wikimedia" > Wikimedia dumps< / a > < / li >
< li > < a href = "https://archive.org/search.php?query=xowa" title = "Search archive.org for XOWA files" > XOWA @ archive.org< / a > < / li >
< li > < a href = "http://en.wikipedia.org" title = "Visit Wikipedia (and compare to XOWA!)" > English Wikipedia< / a > < / li >
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