Re: [Kiwix-developer] Any preferrably java libraries, tutorials, ... about working with zim files? ...
On Sat, Jan 02, 2021 at 11:44:12AM +0100, Albretch Mueller wrote:
> I could not find the zim-tools utility on the debian repository:
> https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=zim-tools
> https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=zim
> and I can't use git since I do not connect my work computer to the Internet.
> Is there a debian package or tar ball somewhere which could be
> installed locally?
> Thanks
>
zim tools is in Buster backports -
https://packages.debian.org/buster-backports/zim-tools
Zim tools Debian into Google found this one for me: packages.debian.org is a
good place to find what's actually packaged and a search on zim-tools also
found this for me just now - maybe you had a glitch somewhere? -
https://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&keywords=zim-tools
Hope this helps,
Andy C
>
> On 12/12/20, Emmanuel Engelhart <kelson@kiwix.org> wrote:
> > On 12.12.20 10:42, Albretch Mueller wrote:
> >> based on what I have read on:
> >>
> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZIM_(file_format)
> >>
> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XZ_Utils
> >>
> >> the zim file format is not exactly based on the zip one,
> >
> > Not at all.
> >
> >> which also
> >> includes archiving. Say you would like to extract just one file to
> >> work on it, without decompressing the whole file.
> >>
> >> How could you do that?
> >>
> > With zimdump in the zim-tools https://github.com/openzim/libzim/issues/397
> >
> > Or you can use one of the binding node/python.
> >
> > Emmanuel
> >
> >
> >
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