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  13. <h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading"><span>App/Setup/Update/In-app</span></h1>
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  15. <div id="siteSub">From XOWA: the free, open-source, offline wiki application</div>
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  17. <div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
  18. <p>
  19. This page describes how to update your XOWA application using the in-app updater.
  20. </p>
  21. <div id="toc" class="toc">
  22. <div id="toctitle" class="toctitle">
  23. <h2>
  24. Contents
  25. </h2>
  26. </div>
  27. <ul>
  28. <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1">
  29. <a href="#Special:XowaAppUpdate"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Special:XowaAppUpdate</span></a>
  30. <ul>
  31. <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2">
  32. <a href="#Opening"><span class="tocnumber">1.1</span> <span class="toctext">Opening</span></a>
  33. </li>
  34. <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3">
  35. <a href="#Installing"><span class="tocnumber">1.2</span> <span class="toctext">Installing</span></a>
  36. </li>
  37. <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4">
  38. <a href="#Skipping"><span class="tocnumber">1.3</span> <span class="toctext">Skipping</span></a>
  39. </li>
  40. </ul>
  41. </li>
  42. <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5">
  43. <a href="#Auto-startup_reminder"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Auto-startup reminder</span></a>
  44. </li>
  45. <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6">
  46. <a href="#Manual_updates"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Manual updates</span></a>
  47. </li>
  48. </ul>
  49. </div>
  50. <h2>
  51. <span class="mw-headline" id="Special:XowaAppUpdate"><a href="/wiki/Special:XowaAppUpdate" id="xolnki_2" title="Special:XowaAppUpdate">Special:XowaAppUpdate</a></span>
  52. </h2>
  53. <p>
  54. This <a href="/wiki/Special:XowaAppUpdate" id="xolnki_3" title="Special:XowaAppUpdate">Special page</a> shows all pending updates.
  55. </p>
  56. <h3>
  57. <span class="mw-headline" id="Opening">Opening</span>
  58. </h3>
  59. <p>
  60. Everytime this page is opened, it checks the XOWA site for updates: <a href="http://xowa.org/admin/app_update/xoa_update.db" rel="nofollow" class="external free">http://xowa.org/admin/app_update/xoa_update.db</a>
  61. </p>
  62. <ul>
  63. <li>
  64. If updates are found, it downloads the descriptions, stores them offline, and shows it on the page
  65. </li>
  66. <li>
  67. If no updates are found, it shows any offline descriptions
  68. </li>
  69. </ul>
  70. <h3>
  71. <span class="mw-headline" id="Installing">Installing</span>
  72. </h3>
  73. <p>
  74. If install is chosen, the following is done:
  75. </p>
  76. <ul>
  77. <li>
  78. The appropriate package is chosen from from <a href="http://github.com/gnosygnu/xowa/releases/" rel="nofollow" class="external free">http://github.com/gnosygnu/xowa/releases/</a>.
  79. <ul>
  80. <li>
  81. Note that XOWA will automatically choose the matching operating system package. (If you're running XOWA on GNU/Linux 64-bit it will automatically download a xowa_app_linux_64 package)
  82. </li>
  83. <li>
  84. Note that the latest version will always be chosen for two reasons:
  85. <ul>
  86. <li>
  87. The latest version is always the recommended version
  88. </li>
  89. <li>
  90. Downgrading from a later version to an earlier version is not recommended. Downgrading will generally work, but it's not something that is ever tested.
  91. </li>
  92. </ul>
  93. </li>
  94. </ul>
  95. </li>
  96. <li>
  97. The package is downloaded and unzipped to C:\xowa_release\user\install\update
  98. </li>
  99. <li>
  100. For each file in the install package:
  101. <ul>
  102. <li>
  103. The corresponding old file will be deleted
  104. </li>
  105. <li>
  106. The new file will be moved into the old file's place
  107. </li>
  108. <li>
  109. Any old file that can't be deleted will be saved to a list
  110. </li>
  111. </ul>
  112. </li>
  113. <li>
  114. XOWA will then shutdown and launch a standalone update app. It will copy any old files that couldn't be deleted in the previous step
  115. </li>
  116. <li>
  117. Once the standalone update app completes, it will launch XOWA
  118. </li>
  119. </ul>
  120. <h3>
  121. <span class="mw-headline" id="Skipping">Skipping</span>
  122. </h3>
  123. <p>
  124. This only applies to the auto-startup reminder (see the next section).
  125. </p>
  126. <ul>
  127. <li>
  128. By pressing the "Skip this update" button, the Special:XowaAppUpdate page will tempoarily stop reminding you automatically at startup.
  129. </li>
  130. <li>
  131. However, once a new XOWA version is available, the Special:XowaAppUpdate page will resume launching automatically at startup.
  132. </li>
  133. </ul>
  134. <h2>
  135. <span class="mw-headline" id="Auto-startup_reminder">Auto-startup reminder</span>
  136. </h2>
  137. <p>
  138. XOWA will check for updates every time the application starts. It does this in a two-step process:
  139. </p>
  140. <ul>
  141. <li>
  142. First, it checks online to see if any new updates have been released.
  143. <ul>
  144. <li>
  145. By default, the time interval is set to 7 days. If XOWA has checked online for an update, it won't check again for another 7 days.
  146. </li>
  147. <li>
  148. If you want to disable online check or change the interval, you can do so at <a href="/wiki/Special:XowaCfg%3Fgrp%3Dxowa.app.update" id="xolnki_4" title="Special:XowaCfg?grp=xowa.app.update">the Options page</a>
  149. </li>
  150. </ul>
  151. </li>
  152. <li>
  153. Next, it will check offline to see any existing updates have not been applied.
  154. <ul>
  155. <li>
  156. A list of offline updates are at C:\xowa_release\user\install\update
  157. </li>
  158. </ul>
  159. </li>
  160. </ul>
  161. <p>
  162. If any updates are available, it will open the Special:XowaUpdate page
  163. </p>
  164. <h2>
  165. <span class="mw-headline" id="Manual_updates">Manual updates</span>
  166. </h2>
  167. <p>
  168. XOWA can always be updated manually:
  169. </p>
  170. <ul>
  171. <li>
  172. You can download the latest version from <a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Help/Download_XOWA.html" rel="nofollow" class="external text">XOWA's download page</a>
  173. </li>
  174. <li>
  175. You can view all available versions at <a href="http://localhost/github.com/gnosygnu/xowa/releases/" rel="nofollow" class="external text">XOWA's Github page</a>
  176. </li>
  177. </ul>
  178. <p>
  179. For more information on manual updates, see <a href="/wiki/App/Setup/Update/Manual" id="xolnki_5" title="App/Setup/Update/Manual">the manual update help page</a>
  180. </p>
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  199. <h3>XOWA</h3>
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  211. <h3>Getting started</h3>
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  214. <li><a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/App/Setup/System_requirements.html" title='Get XOWA&apos;s system requirements'>Requirements</a></li>
  215. <li><a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/App/Setup/Installation.html" title='Get instructions for installing XOWA'>Installation</a></li>
  216. <li><a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/App/Import/Simple_Wikipedia.html" title='Learn how to set up Simple Wikipedia'>Simple Wikipedia</a></li>
  217. <li><a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/App/Import/English_Wikipedia.html" title='Learn how to set up English Wikipedia'>English Wikipedia</a></li>
  218. <li><a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/App/Import/Other_wikis.html" title='Learn how to set up other Wikipedias'>Other Wikipedias</a></li>
  219. </ul>
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  223. <h3>Android</h3>
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  225. <ul>
  226. <li><a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Android/Setup.html" title='Setup XOWA on your Android device'>Setup</a></li>
  227. <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsMTBxGweUw" title="See a video of XOWA Android in action">Video</a></li>
  228. </ul>
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  232. <h3>Help</h3>
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  235. <li><a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Help/About.html" title='Get more information about XOWA'>About</a></li>
  236. <li><a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Help/Contents.html" title='View a list of help topics'>Contents</a></li>
  237. <li><a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Help/Media.html" title='Read what others have written about XOWA'>Media</a></li>
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  251. <h3>Links</h3>
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  253. <ul>
  254. <li><a href="http://dumps.wikimedia.org/backup-index.html" title="Get wiki datababase dumps directly from Wikimedia">Wikimedia dumps</a></li>
  255. <li><a href="https://archive.org/search.php?query=xowa" title="Search archive.org for XOWA files">XOWA @ archive.org</a></li>
  256. <li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org" title="Visit Wikipedia (and compare to XOWA!)">English Wikipedia</a></li>
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  261. <h3>Donate</h3>
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