System Requirements

General requirements

• 2GiB or RAM.
• 16GiB of disk space: actual requirements depends on the requested content.

Linux-specifix requirements

• ExFAT support
• Storaged (udisks2)
• disk group (optional)

Exfat Support

ExFAT Support is required in order to mount /data partition on the host. If your system does not support it, choose one of the following methods:

• apt install exfat-fuse exfat-utils

Udisks2

• apt install udisks2

Udisks2 rules

When using kiwix-plug_installer outside a GUI session, chances are that the default Polkit or PolicyKit (Polkit ancestor) rules would prevent you from setting-up and mounting loop devices.

Note: Change the group or user to assign privileges to.

If using Polkit, edit /etc/polkit-1/rules.d/10-udisks2.rules and adjust who would be allowed to setup and mount loop devices (here, all users of the group somegroup).

polkit.addRule(function(action, subject) {
    if ((action.id == "org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-mount-system" ||
         action.id == "org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-mount" ||
         action.id == "org.freedesktop.udisks2.loop-setup" ||
         action.id == "org.freedesktop.udisks2.loop-delete-others") &&
		subject.isInGroup("somegroup") {
        return polkit.Result.YES;
    }
});

If using PolicyKit (Ubuntu), edit /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/10-udisks.pkla and adjust who would be allowed to setup and mount loop devices (here, all users of the group somegroup).

[udisks2]
#Identity=unix-group:somegroup
Identity=unix-user:myuser
Action=org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-mount;org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-mount-system;org.freedesktop.udisks2.loop-setup;org.freedesktop.udisks2.loop-delete-others
ResultAny=yes

disk group

On most distributions, loop devices are owned by root:disk.

By adding yourself to the disk group, you save yourself the trouble of elevating privileges to format the data partition.