Installing gadict dictionaries

Downloading

Official sources tarballs and compiled builds are available at:

• http://gadict.defun.work/download/
• https://sourceforge.net/projects/gadict/files/

Compiled tarball provides:

• Compiled dictionaries (with extension .dict.dz) and indexes (with extension .index) in /dictd directory for use with dictd. Goldendict and other end used dictionary programs understand this format.
• Documentation in plain text in /doc/txt directory (with extension .rst) and in HTML in /doc/html directory (with extension .html).
• Import files in Packaged Anki Desk format for Anki and AnkiDroid software in /srs directory (files with extension .apkg). Do not forget to enable random order of cards review!
• Import files in TAB format for SRS software in /srs directory (files with extension .tab.txt). Anki, Mnemosyne, Anymemo and many other SRS packages able to import TAB files. Don't forget to enable HTML markup on import!

Compiled tarballs have names like:

gadict-$major.$minor.tar.gz
gadict-$major.$minor.zip

Source tarballs have names like:

gadict-$major.$minor_src.tar.gz

Installation instruction for GoldenDict

Get distribution tarball and extract files from dictd directory in desired place.

Select Edit ==> Dictionaries... in GoldenDict menu (or just press F3) and add directory where you extracted files. Press Refresh button and enjoy!

How to build and install using supplied Makefile

To build and install to /usr/local/ run as root:

$ make install

For regular user prefix is set to:

$HOME/usr

To install to different place run:

$ make install prefix=$PREFIX

How to uninstall using supplied Makefile

To uninstall run one of:

$ make uninstall
$ make uninstall prefix=$PREFIX
$ make prefix=$PREFIX uninstall uninstall-local-symlink

Register dictionaries in dictd server in Debian

For given directory /home/user/usr/share/dictd/:

$ su
# cat >>/etc/dictd/dictd.order <<EOF
gadict
/home/user/usr/share/dictd/
^D
# dictdconfig --write
# /etc/init.d/dictd restart
^D
$ dictdconfig --list
$ dict -d gadict v