English dictionary for fedora 9

mq15 · 07-15-2009, 10:52 AM

Hello friends,
Please tell me any english to english or english to urdu (non-web-based) dictionary for fedora. During study, I have to switch to vista for Pocket Oxford Dictionary again and again.
Regards

{BBI}Nexus{BBI} · 07-15-2009, 12:34 PM

Kdict (for the K desktop), Gdict (for the Gnome desktop) & Stardict are all non-web based, on or offline dictionaries available for GNU/Linux. With additional dictionaries available for download. Check for those names in your package manager.

See here for an example: http://stardict.sourceforge.net/

mq15 · 07-19-2009, 11:33 PM

Thanks a lot dear {BBI}Nexus{BBI}.
I have downloaded stardict-3.0.1-1.fc8.i386.rpm file from the link you said. For the installation, here is what I do in the terminal and the results:

Quote:

[root@localhost MyApps]# rpm -ivh stardict-3.0.1-1.fc8.i386.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
espeak is needed by stardict-3.0.1-1.fc8.i386
libespeak.so.1 is needed by stardict-3.0.1-1.fc8.i386
[root@localhost MyApps]#

I don't know what these errors mean and what I should do. Please guide me.

jdkaye · 07-19-2009, 11:41 PM

It means you need to install the espeak package. I would guess that the file libespeak.so.1 is contained in the espeak package.
cheers,
jdk

mq15 · 07-19-2009, 11:47 PM

Thanks jdkaye but how I am supposed to install that package?

mq15 · 07-20-2009, 02:32 AM

I have also tried to install Gdict instead, and here is what happened in the terminal:

Quote:

[root@localhost ~]# yum install Gdict
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
updates-newkey | 3.4 kB 00:03
fedora | 2.4 kB 00:00
adobe-linux-i386 | 951 B 00:00
updates | 2.6 kB 00:00
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
No package Gdict available.
Nothing to do
[root@localhost ~]#

Please guide me.

sreeharsha.t · 07-20-2009, 03:07 AM

Quote:

[root@localhost MyApps]# rpm -ivh stardict-3.0.1-1.fc8.i386.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
espeak is needed by stardict-3.0.1-1.fc8.i386
libespeak.so.1 is needed by stardict-3.0.1-1.fc8.i386
[root@localhost MyApps]#

Try

Code:

 yum localinstall /path/to/stardict-3.0.1-1.fc8.i386.rpm

it will hunt down all the dependencies for you.

By the way, you have downloaded the wrong version of stardict I guess. You indicated that you need dictionaries to install in Fedora 9. But the one which you have downloaded appears to be for Fedora 8. In this case yum may not work.

If thats so, try

Code:

 yum install stardict

mq15 · 07-20-2009, 08:43 AM

thank you so much sreeharsha.t
and what should I do to install Gdict?

sreeharsha.t · 07-23-2009, 05:04 AM

From your previous post I deduce that your yum is not able to find a package with name Gdict..

Try searching for that package in the yum repository first by,

Code:

yum search gdict

If there are some packages of gdict, yum will show highlight them with their full name. Install those packages by yum install.

If you find success, do post it! 8)

mq15 · 07-23-2009, 11:46 AM

Thanks sreeharsha.t. I did as you directed and here is the result:

Quote:

[root@localhost ~]# yum search gdict
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
updates-newkey | 3.4 kB 00:00
fedora | 2.4 kB 00:00
adobe-linux-i386 | 951 B 00:00
updates | 2.6 kB 00:00
Warning: No matches found for: gdict
No Matches found

sreeharsha.t · 07-27-2009, 12:16 AM

No luck with yum I guess, I clearly appears that the fedora's repos aren't having any packages related to gdict.

jdkaye · 07-27-2009, 01:08 AM

It appears there are no gdict packages per se. I've found this: libgdict-1.0-6 although I don't know what fedora calls it. But you might try libgdict instead of gdict. Otherwise it might be part of some fedora gnome package.
cheers,
jdk

mq15 · 07-27-2009, 08:55 AM

I have tried with libgdict and again :
No mathes found
Thanks jdkaye

mq15 · 07-27-2009, 11:11 PM

I have successfully installed StarDict now, the only problem with this is that though it shows the example sentences in English, it shows the meanings in Chines like characters. Friends ! please help me. I have to switch back to Vista again and again for Pocket Oxford Dictionary during studing.
Thanks in advance

jdkaye · 07-27-2009, 11:14 PM

Can you post these "Chinese-like" characters? Maybe your character encoding is set improperly.
cheers,
jdk