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infinite

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Local Server Dictionary , french only , xfce4-dict

OS: Ubuntu trusty
Client : xfce4-dict
Server : dictd
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Hi,

Where is a french only dictionary ?
( There is a english only dictionary )

Not in the official database : http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/dictd-dictionary

Maybe somewhere else in Linux in general ?

Last edited by infinite (2016-04-16 15:43:09)

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Re: Local Server Dictionary , french only , xfce4-dict

Try this (although, personally, I would use Synaptic Package Manager instead of Software Manager to do it):

https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=161481

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MDM

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infinite

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Re: Local Server Dictionary , french only , xfce4-dict

aspell isn't compatible with xfce4-dict .

Last edited by infinite (2016-04-17 13:18:39)

MountainDewManiac

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Re: Local Server Dictionary , french only , xfce4-dict

Ah. You will, I hope, forgive my mistake, since the link I posted, along with this one:

https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/precise/xfce4-dict/

and this one:

https://searchcode.com/codesearch/view/22776295/

and even this one:

http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-dict

all mention "aspell," which gave me the impression that it was, lol.

Maybe you can find the dictionary file you seek by using a search engine and adding one or more of the dictionaries mentioned under "Local dictionary server" (on that last link I listed) as your search term(s), along with the language you want (in this case, French - perhaps spelled natively would be better, IDK).

Regards,
MDM

Last edited by MountainDewManiac (2016-04-18 04:37:12)

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Jerry3904

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Re: Local Server Dictionary , french only , xfce4-dict

In the official documentation it says differently:

This program allows you to search different kinds of dictionary services for words or phrases and shows you the result. Currently you can query a Dict server(RFC 2229), any online dictionary service by opening a web browser or search for words using the aspell/ispell program.

I have screwed around with this plugin a lot without great success, and am not sure I believe that description actually matches reality...

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Re: Local Server Dictionary , french only , xfce4-dict

aspell isn't compatible with xfce4-dict .

I meant that aspell isn't usable as a dictionary .
But he is as a Spell checker : http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applic … sed_search

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Re: Local Server Dictionary , french only , xfce4-dict

BTW: after snooping around on this for longer than I meant to originally, it looks like goldendict can handle local dictionaries easily. I installed dict-freedict-eng-spa (Debian Stable repo), and it automatically found the dictionary and gave me the translation of my test word. Goldendict also works much better than xfce4-dict and has many more options.

Don't have it all figured out yet--for instance, how to get the Wikipedia url to work*, but I am switching to this one for future efforts.

EDIT: watch out for their Forum, it is full of spam.

*Wikipedia search url needs to be

https://en.wikipedia.org/w

Last edited by Jerry3904 (2016-04-18 12:26:17)

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Re: Local Server Dictionary , french only , xfce4-dict

Indeed, goldendict,stardict as GUI softwares.

What about CLI ?