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Updating Kiwix and Zim File on Raspberry Pi Offline Wikipedia Kiosk

Locked Down Offline Wikipedia Kiosk on Raspberry Pi 4: https://youtu.be/gtlydT6Lumg Download Kiwix Server https://www.kiwix.org/en/downloads/kiwix-serve/ Download Kiwix Content (Zim File) https://wiki.kiwix.org/wiki/Content_in_all_languages Login to Raspberry Pi (use your kiosk’s hostname, username and password) Disable OverlayFS (disable read-only system) Advanced Options > Overlay FS Send Kiwix Server and Zim File to Raspberry Pi (run on local computer) Stop …

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Locked Down Offline Wikipedia Kiosk on Raspberry Pi 4

Outstanding Issues You can halt the boot process by holding down control-c. This doesn’t seem to allow the user to gain access to the system. This wasn’t working with Raspberry Pi 2 or 3 at first but I added “sudo adduser kiosk video” to the setup and it works now. I don’t think older models …

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