Easy Okular download option for Windows outside the MS Store

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Hi there, I’ve been using Okular as a document viewer on Windows and Linux for a long time. Moreover, Acrobat Reader has become such a piece of crap and is collecting data on a scale that’s bordering criminality and a potential security risk, IMHO, so Okular should be the natural alternative.

A reasonable approach to this issue for an Open Source project would be to make the access to a standalone Windows installer of the latest stable release as easy as possible. That’s not the case, though. You can only get the latest stable version via the MS Store, whereas development versions are available through cdn.

IMNSHO, a standalone installer for Windows must be available outside the MS Store.

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choco install okular

The old model of ‘download an executable package to install a package’ isn’t the best idea IMHO.

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Hi,

Thanks for your reply. Why do you think the “old model” isn’t the best idea? Most Free software programmes for Windows are still being distributed that way, and for a good reason: download once, install it wherever you want, even without an internet connection.

Does your reasoning even consider areas of the world that don’t have high-speed connections or none at all? In many developing countries (and I would include many rural areas of the US here) people need to download a standalone installer somewhere else, put it on a stick and then install it. That’s just the reality.

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So sorry… it’s a shame you didn’t mention this reality in your OP… but yes, there are many ‘3rd world countries’ with terrible internet infrastructure (like the USA, and Australia…). Fortunately I live in Thailand, where you can get pretty strong connections pretty much anywhere (assuming you have mobile internet as a backup).

Then you can keep it on a flashdrive and use it anywhere.

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Thanks for the reply, but it doesn’t help, because PortableApps.com refers back to the Okular installation page. As far as I can tell, there’s no portable package of Okular available. The GitHub page is equally useless as a download source.

What, in your opinion, makes it so hard to create a standalone installer for Windows, other than a philosophical view on how a particular piece of software needs to be installed?

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