Re: off-line dictionary (gnome)
* Johann Spies <jspies@sun.ac.za> [080617 01:00]:
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 12:28:26AM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote:
> > Running Debian and the Gnome desktop, what is necessary for a
> > dictionary which may be used off-line -- that is, going to localhost
> > rather than to dict.org ?
> >
> > The man pages for dict and dictd don't appear to discuss off-line
> > access. The instructions I found in a wiki titled "Gnome-dictionary
> > Offline" do not agree with the menus which I find in Dictionary
> > 2.14.0.
>
> I only use the dict-packages offline. Just install all the
> dictionaries you want to use and make sure that your dict client refer
> to localhost as server.
Thanks, but I already did that, using the edit -> preferences menu of
Dictionary 2.14.0. But the response is very slow (several seconds,
because another machine on the network is doing a jidgo download), so
it is obvious that the client is going out to dict.org.
Perhaps dictd is not running? How can I check to see?
RLH
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