Browsing Whonix ™ Documentation Offline

Installation

Install git.

1. Update the package lists.

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get update

2. Upgrade the system.

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

3. Install the git package.

Using apt-get command line parameter --no-install-recommends is in most cases optional.

sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends git

sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends git

The procedure of installing git is complete.

Use git to download the Whonix ™ wiki documentation.

git clone --depth=1 https://gitlab.com/whonix/whonix-wiki-html.git

git clone --depth=1 https://gitlab.com/whonix/whonix-wiki-html.git

Usage

x-www-browser ~/whonix-wiki-html/Documentation.html

x-www-browser ~/whonix-wiki-html/Documentation.html

Advantages

• Very fast to browse once installed.
• Higher privacy.

Warnings

Warning: For users who intend to avoid internet connections.

No special measures were taken to enforce not using the internet. When clicking external links, the internet will be used. Browsing offline documentation pages might result in external internet connections. If external content must not be loaded, disable networking of the virtual machine or the host computer.

Offline documentation will likely be older than online documentation. For time critical issues such as version numbers refer to the online version.

Limitations

• Some links might be broken.
• Large image view is broken. ^[archive]
• Simple code boxes. One has to manually select the contents of a code box for copy and paste.
• Boxes for "click on Expand on the right" are already expanded by default.
• Layout, tables look a bit different.
• Other imperfections.

Forum Discussion

https://forums.whonix.org/t/offline-documentation-discussion/413/89 ^[archive]

Wiki Database Dump

A) Whonix ™ wiki as mediawiki XML database dump not including full history dumpContent.xml but including all wiki images ^[archive]

• Using git, on gitlab.
• Ugly binary file.
• Restoration possible in new mediawiki.
• rsync://whonix.org/whonix/whonixdevelopermetafiles/whonix-wiki-backup-dump-content-current

B) Whonix ™ wiki as mediawiki XML database dump including full history but not including wiki images dumpContent.xml ^[archive]

• dumpContent.xml.sha512sum ^[archive]
• Not using git because file size to big.
• Ugly binary file.
• Restoration possible in new mediawiki.
• rsync://whonix.org/whonix/whonixdevelopermetafiles/whonix-wiki-backup-dump-content-full

Hints:

• Best to combine the two downloads above (full history A + all wiki images B).
• Possible to rsync from whonix.org.

Recommended steps to restore in a new mediawiki installation:

1) Restore full wiki history.

sudo -u www-data php /var/www/w/maintenance/importDump.php --uploads --dry-run /path/to/whonix-wiki-backup-dump-content-full/dumpContent.xml

sudo -u www-data php /var/www/w/maintenance/importDump.php --uploads --dry-run /path/to/whonix-wiki-backup-dump-content-full/dumpContent.xml

• Path to mediawiki maintenance script importDump.php will likely be different.
• drop: --dry-run
• Probably also drop (likely broken) --uploads (not important)

2) Restore all wiki images.

sudo -u www-data php /var/www/w/maintenance/importImages.php /path/to/wiki/wiki-backup-dump-content-current/mediafiles

sudo -u www-data php /var/www/w/maintenance/importImages.php /path/to/wiki/wiki-backup-dump-content-current/mediafiles

• Path to mediawiki maintenance script importImages.php will likely be different.
• Check permissions. Folder to import from must be readable by user www-data. To test, run: sudo -u www-data cp -r /path/to/wiki/wiki-backup-dump-content-current/mediafiles /tmp/delete or so.

Alternative Wiki Backup Formats

• C) Whonix ™ wiki as mediawiki markdown ^[archive]
  • Looks nicer.
  • No automated path to restoration.
  • rsync://whonix.org/whonix/whonix3developermetafiles/whonix-wiki-backup

• D) Whonix ™ wiki as HTML ^[archive]
  • Looks nicer.
  • No automated path to restoration.

---

Whonix ™ is Supported by Evolution Host DDoS Protected VPS. Stay private and get your VPS with Bitcoin or Monero.

---

Jobs in USA

---

Search engines: YaCy | Qwant | ecosia | MetaGer | peekier | Whonix ™ Wiki

---

Follow:

Support:

Donate:

Please help in testing new features and bug fixes in Whonix ™.

This is a wiki. Want to improve this page? Help is welcome and volunteer contributions are happily considered! Read, understand and agree to Conditions for Contributions to Whonix ™, then Edit! Edits are held for moderation. Policy of Whonix Website and Whonix Chat and Policy On Nonfreedom Software applies.

Copyright (C) 2012 - 2021 ENCRYPTED SUPPORT LP. Whonix ™ is a trademark. Whonix ™ is a licensee ^[archive] of the Open Invention Network ^[archive]. Unless otherwise noted, the content of this page is copyrighted and licensed under the same Freedom Software license as Whonix ™ itself. (Why?)

The personal opinions of moderators or contributors to the Whonix ™ project do not represent the project as a whole.

Whonix ™ is a derivative of and not affiliated with Debian ^[archive]. Debian is a registered trademark ^[archive] owned by Software in the Public Interest, Inc ^[archive].

Whonix ™ is produced independently from the Tor® ^[archive] anonymity software and carries no guarantee from The Tor Project ^[archive] about quality, suitability or anything else.

By using our website, you acknowledge that you have read, understood and agreed to our Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy, Terms of Service, and E-Sign Consent. Whonix ™ is provided by ENCRYPTED SUPPORT LP. See Imprint, Contact.