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Hello,
I require a offline dictionary but can't seem to get it to work with xfce4-dict
What I have tried so far
I have installed dictd and dictd-server
-systemctl enable dictd
-systemctl start dictd
-changed dictionary server to "localhost"
The xFCE-dict gives errror : cannot connect to server
All online help I could find , tells me to install a dictionary like wordnet or dict-gcide, which are not available on fedora?
I do have hunspell-en-GM installed (not working)
Any advise on how to setup a offline dictionary(other applications / command line is also fine ) is much appreciated.
Thankyou
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On Arch here. I installed dict-gcide, set the server to localhost and it works.
What does the following show:
systemctl status dictd
The gcide dictionary can be downloaded from: https://gcide.gnu.org.ua/download. It should be extracted to /usr/share/dictd. The two important files are:
/usr/share/dictd/gcide.dict.dz
/usr/share/dictd/gcide.index
Also make sure you add to /etc/dictd/dictd.conf the following:
database gcide {
data /usr/share/dictd/gcide.dict.dz
index /usr/share/dictd/gcide.index
}
Edit: More dictionary files available here.
Last edited by ToZ (2024-05-23 12:41:06)
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Thanks for the reply
The output for systemctl dictd status is
dictd.service - Dictd Dictionary Server Daemon
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/dictd.service; enabled; preset: disabled)
Drop-In: /usr/lib/systemd/system/service.d
└─10-timeout-abort.conf
Active: active (running) since Thu 2024-05-23 19:02:48 IST; 6min ago
Process: 23488 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/dictd --listen-to 127.0.0.1 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 23489 (dictd)
Tasks: 1 (limit: 4368)
Memory: 812.0K (peak: 1.8M)
CPU: 7ms
CGroup: /system.slice/dictd.service
└─23489 "dictd 1.12.1: 1/1"
As for "two important files are:
/usr/share/dictd/gcide.dict.dz
/usr/share/dictd/gcide.index"
When I decompress the gcide dictionary downloaded from that source, it doesn't contain those two files
These are the files contained within.
abbrevn.lst
authors.lst
CIDE.A
CIDE.B
CIDE.C
CIDE.D
CIDE.E
CIDE.F
CIDE.G
CIDE.H
CIDE.I
CIDE.J
CIDE.K
CIDE.L
CIDE.M
CIDE.N
CIDE.O
CIDE.P
CIDE.Q
CIDE.R
CIDE.S
CIDE.T
CIDE.U
CIDE.V
CIDE.W
CIDE.X
CIDE.Y
CIDE.Z
COPYING
INFO
pronunc.png
pronunc.txt
README
symbols.png
tagset.txt
temp.txt
titlepage.png
webfont.txt
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