Re: unable to install stardict
On 2014-01-04 15:41:19 -0500, Jeff Bauer wrote:
> On 01/04/2014 01:38 PM, Slavko wrote:
> >Dňa Sat, 04 Jan 2014 17:57:42 +0100 François Patte
> ><francois.patte@mi.parisdescartes.fr> napísal:
> >
> >>I tried to install stardict <snip>
> >
> >The StarDict's development seems to be ended.
> >
>
> Five or more years ago when still enamored with Puppy Linux, I discovered
> that Puppy's PBDict was just a gooey GUI wrapper for the application dict.
> Deciding to forego the clumsy GUI and mouse, I started just issuing "dict
> foo" in a terminal. Since then, first with Arch, and Debian, dict is perhaps
> one of my most frequently used apps.
>
> Another thing I did was to install dictionary databases locally, as I was
> virtually crippled when dict.org's servers were offline.
There aren't French dictionaries for dict, while IIRC there's one
for StarDict. That may be the reason why the OP wants StarDict.
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