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regarding stardict: No dictionaries available, no easy installation
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Package: stardict
Version: 2.4.3-5
Severity: important
Hello.
After installing StarDict there are no dictionaries available.
Even though the freedict dictionaries' packages are installed from
Debian packages. The same dictionaries can be downloaded from the
StarDict homepage, but all together they are quite a few megs.
I did download and install the rpms from the StarDict homepage using
alien to first transform them to debs. While this works, the download
is too much for people using a modem and a real show stopper for
people without internet access.
A dictionary tool without dictionaries is pretty useless. Therefore
I suggest that the freedict dictionaries available as Debian packages
in the distribution are made available to StarDict.
I tried linking the Debian packages' freedict-deu-eng as something like
/usr/share/stardict/dic/freedict-deu-eng/*
as they are installed a similar way (folder names are different) when
I use the rpms. But these have an additional file *.ifo for each
dictionary. Should there be any file format differences between
StarDicts DICT dictionaries and those provided by Debian I suggest
that a standardized file format be used in both cases to avoid redundant
installation of the same data in different formats.
Maybe it is a good idea to put DICT dictionaries in a common place and
link to them from the specific dictionary tools. In this case I guess
the dictionary packages' maintainers should cope with that.
On the other hand, it should be a lot easier to add an existing dictionary
from within StarDict. I suggest that StarDict offers an option to add
dictionaries from within StarDict. This could be a simple file selection
dialogue where one can select the path to the existing DICT dictionaries.
I know this bug report might as well be called a 'wish'. But, as I said
above, a dictionary tool without dictionaries is useless, so I think it
can justifiably be called important.
Kind regards
Andreas
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.7-1-386
Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Versions of packages stardict depends on:
ii gconf2 2.8.1-4 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.16-6 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libatk1.0-0 1.8.0-4 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libaudiofile0 0.2.6-5 Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii libbonobo2-0 2.8.0-4 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii libbonoboui2-0 2.8.0-2 The Bonobo UI library
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libesd0 0.2.35-2 Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared
ii libgcc1 1:3.4.3-6 GCC support library
ii libgconf2-4 2.8.1-4 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libgcrypt11 1.2.0-4 LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii libglib2.0-0 2.4.8-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnome-keyring0 0.4.0-2 GNOME keyring services library
ii libgnome2-0 2.8.0-6 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.8.0-1 A powerful object-oriented display
ii libgnomeui-0 2.8.0-3 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii libgnomevfs2-0 2.8.3-8 The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii libgnutls11 1.0.16-9 GNU TLS library - runtime library
ii libgpg-error0 1.0-1 library for common error values an
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.4.14-2 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libjpeg62 6b-9 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii liborbit2 1:2.10.2-1.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii libpango1.0-0 1.6.0-3 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpopt0 1.7-5 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii libsm6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System Session Management
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.5-5 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libtasn1-2 0.2.10-3 Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime)
ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxml2 2.6.11-5 GNOME XML library
ii stardict-common 2.4.3-5 International dictionary for GNOME
ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-3 compression library - runtime
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 3.0.6+dfsg-0.3+rm
Dear submitter,
as the package stardict has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.
For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/956844
The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using http://snapshot.debian.org/.
Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and
will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the
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