English dictionary for fedora 9
 

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

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/

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:

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

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

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

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

Please guide me.

Try
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

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

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,

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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