(Make sure to click my username to check that this is the latest release)

What is this?
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An offline mirror of Stack Overflow and most of the Stack Exchange sister sites, with questions and answers posted up to 2017-03-14.
The search engine is not perfect, but it can be invaluable when you're without internet. A few StackExchange sites such as math.stackexchange.com and some language-related sites are not included in this package, to save on space. You can add them yourself if you need them. See these for how:
Stackdump viewer:     https://bitbucket.org/samuel.lai/stackdump
Stackexchange data:   https://archive.org/details/stackexchange


Why?
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You could recreate this package by downloading the stackdump viewer and importing the stackexchange data yourself, but it would take a day or more of work, lots of RAM (> 12GB) and lots of disk space. I made this for myself, and thought I'd save you that effort.


Is this legal?
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Yes. The data is released by Stack Exchange Inc. under cc-by-sa 3.0 which allows to "remix, transform, and build upon the material". The viewer program is "stackdump" by Samuel Lai, and is released under the MIT License (see link above).


How do I use this? What do I need?
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You need Python (2.5 or later, but not 3.0), Java (6 or later) and 56 GB of disk space. The package is a working Mercurial repository (which also provides a way to check that the code hasn't been altered). You can update the stackdump viewer with a "hg pull" when new versions appear, as well as add and remove sites with manage.sh if you want more, or to free up space. See the stackdump site for instructions how.

Linux:
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Run this in the stackdump directory:
    ./start_solr.sh &
    ./start_web.sh
to start up a webserver on localhost:8080. To shut it down, Ctrl+C the two scripts.

Windows:
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Launch these two scripts from a shell:
    Start-Solr.ps1
    Start-StackdumpWeb.ps1
to start up a webserver on localhost:8080. To shut them down, Ctrl+C them.
You might need to first turn on script-running for PowerShell (run
Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned in C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe started as Administrator). You might then need to edit Start-Solr.ps1 and reduce -Xmx2048M to -Xmx1048M (maybe only for 32-bit version of PowerShell? Not sure). After that, starting Start-Solr.ps1 and Start-StackdumpWeb.ps1 in two different C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe should put up the webserver.

Other OSes:
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Should work if you have Python and Java, but I have not tried myself