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creator = Brendan Kidwell | creator = Brendan Kidwell | ||
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====== Install Zim Desktop Wiki 0.70 or Later in Windows ====== | ====== Install Zim Desktop Wiki 0.70 or Later in Windows ====== | ||
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- | Brendan Kidwell | ||
As of the time I'm writing this howto, there is no complete self-installing package of Zim Desktop Wiki 0.70 or later, for Windows. This is due to the Zim project migrating from Python 2 to Python 3 and from GTK 2 to GTK 3. I was the maintainer of the old Zim packages for Windows, and I have not been able to come up with a packaging workflow that works for GTK 3. | As of the time I'm writing this howto, there is no complete self-installing package of Zim Desktop Wiki 0.70 or later, for Windows. This is due to the Zim project migrating from Python 2 to Python 3 and from GTK 2 to GTK 3. I was the maintainer of the old Zim packages for Windows, and I have not been able to come up with a packaging workflow that works for GTK 3. | ||
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**Caution: You will need approximately 1GB of disk space** to store the MSYS2 environment and all of Zim's dependencies, | **Caution: You will need approximately 1GB of disk space** to store the MSYS2 environment and all of Zim's dependencies, | ||
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+ | ===== 0. Upgrading From a Previous Version ===== | ||
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+ | **Are you upgrading from a version before 0.69?** You should uninstall Zim completely using the appropriate item in your Add / Remove Programs screen or by deleting application folder -- depending on how you installed it originally. | ||
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+ | **Are you upgrading from version 0.70 or later?** If you have already installed 0.70 or later using the procedure in **this howto document**, you just need to repeat step 4 below; you can skip the other steps. | ||
===== 1. Install MSYS2 ===== | ===== 1. Install MSYS2 ===== | ||
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+ | **Zim should be ready to use now!** | ||
===== 6. Installing Dependencies of Zim Plugins ===== | ===== 6. Installing Dependencies of Zim Plugins ===== | ||
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After Pacman is done installing the package, you can close Preferences in Zim and re-open Preferences. Navigate to the plugin you were trying to use, and it should now say that the Dependencies are satisfied. | After Pacman is done installing the package, you can close Preferences in Zim and re-open Preferences. Navigate to the plugin you were trying to use, and it should now say that the Dependencies are satisfied. | ||
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Now you are ready to use the plugin. | Now you are ready to use the plugin. | ||