On 16 November 2005 15:57, Holly Bostick wrote: > abhay schreef: > > On Wednesday 16 Nov 2005 4:25 am, Willie Wong wrote: > >> An option to skip installing dictd is to install the commandline > >> version of StarDict, http://sdcv.sourceforge.net/ Last I checked it > >> is not in portage. It doesn't really work like Kdict, but suits my > >> needs well enough. > > > > Ok so I installed sdcv but for every word I search the output is > > "Nothing similar to <word>, sorry :(" Do I need to install something > > else as well? Also the download size is just 163KB and I seriously > > doubt that it contains dictionary files. What am I doing wrong? > > > > Abhay > > It would seem that you need some dictionaries: > > From sdcv homepage: > > SDCV is simple, cross-platform text-base utility for work with > > dictionaries in StarDict's format. > > This does not suggest that sdcv actutally *has* these dictionaries > contained within it. But likely whatever is missing can be found at the > stardict site
Stasrdict dictionaries actually are in portage. Uwe -- 95% of all programmers rate themselves among the top 5% of all software developers. - Linus Torvalds http://www.uwix.iway.na (last updated: 20.06.2004) -- [email protected] mailing list

