How to install the StackExchange Data Dump Viewer?

Solution 1:

• Firstly open a terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T).

• Install Bazaar (bzr) and other required dependencies by pasting this (Ctrl+Shift+V) in the terminal:

  sudo apt-get install bzr qt4-qmake libqt4-dev libqtwebkit-dev
  

• Get all the code:

  bzr branch lp:aubrowser
  

• Now navigate into the directory:

  cd aubrowser
  

• Now compile the code:

  ./compile_everything
  

• Now start the conversion wizard:

  convert/convert
  

• A window will open. Paste data/posts.xml then follow through the wizard.

  

• Now close the terminal, open Nautilus and browse to the aubrowser folder inside your home folder and run the AskUbuntuBrowser file (by double clicking on it).

  

• Tada!

  

Solution 2:

See the readme in the installation file. 1st part:

StackExchange Data Dump Browser is a small Qt-based application 
designed to make it easy to view the contents of StackExchange data dumps 
when you have no active Internet connection.

Building the application (the easy way):

1. Open a terminal and navigate to the root directory of the repository.
2. Type `./compile_everything`
3. Run `convert/convert` to run the conversion wizard. 
When prompted for the location of the data dump files, enter 'data/posts.xml'.

Here you can find the package.