Arch Linux docs

Arch Linux offline docs

Arch has a lot of packages with offline documentation.

Arch-wiki-docs

It is a mirror of the “wiki.archlinux.org” site.

ArchWiki is a great source of proven documentation related to Arch Linux system and Linux software. It is also available offline as a package for Arch.

• Install: pacman -Sy arch-wiki-docs
• Remove all languages except the English to save disk space: find /usr/share/doc/arch-wiki/html -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d ! -name en | xargs rm -rf
• Serve files on a local web server (see Nginx config to serve docs).
• Access via “http://127.0.0.1/arch-wiki/en”

Python-docs

It is a mirror of the “docs.python.org” site.

• Install pacman -Sy python-docs
• Serve files on a local web server (see Nginx config to serve docs).
• Access via “http://127.0.0.1/python-docs”

Nginx config to serve docs

    rewrite ^/arch-wiki/?$ /arch-wiki/en/ redirect;

    location /arch-wiki {
        alias /usr/share/doc/arch-wiki/html/;
        autoindex on;
        expires 1d;
    }

    location /arduino {
        alias /usr/share/doc/arduino/;
        autoindex on;
        expires 1d;
    }

    location /python-docs {
        alias /usr/share/doc/python/html/;
        autoindex on;
        expires 1d;
    }

Links

• Nginx