jimw Posted July 28, 2004 Report Share Posted July 28, 2004 Well, I've got stardict working, right off the bat. I'd like to see what Kdict has to offer, but in order to make a fair test, it appears I have to have a PERL Dict protcol. I have downloaded this, the Jiten protocol, (http://www.miranda.org/~jkominek/jiten/) and can't quite figure what to do with it, and there are no instructions such as someone like me desperately needs. My Machine (Mandrake 10), has perl installed, however, I know little about how perl scripts work. A quick helping hand would be appreciated. Jim Wagner Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted July 28, 2004 Report Share Posted July 28, 2004 Did you install Kdict using urpmi? Then you don't have to care about dependencies. If not do a make uninstall and use urpmi to install kdict. PS a good dict server is : dict.tugraz.at Good luck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimw Posted July 30, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 30, 2004 Just last night found a Mandrake rpm for dict, installed it, and now kdict works. My next problem is, how to get it to see files on my system. I got some files, off the debian site, that are supposed to work with dict, if I understand correctly. Anyone have any suggestions about making them work? What format are they suopposed to be in, and how do I transfer them? Jim Wagner Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted July 30, 2004 Report Share Posted July 30, 2004 Dict works as a client/server (kdict is the client and dictd the server). If you want to acces dict files locally you have to set up a dict server (look in the kdict help for a HOWTO). Much simpler is to use a publicly available dict server (dict.tugraz.at is a good one). Go to settings--> kdict settings--> hostname: XXXXXXXX. For XXXX use your favorite dict server. On the dict.og webpage you an find a complete listing of servers. Good luck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimw Posted August 1, 2004 Author Report Share Posted August 1, 2004 Dict works as a client/server (kdict is the client and dictd the server). If you want to acces dict files locally you have to set up a dict server (look in the kdict help for a HOWTO). Much simpler is to use a publicly available dict server (dict.tugraz.at is a good one). Go to settings--> kdict settings--> hostname: XXXXXXXX. For XXXX use your favorite dict server. On the dict.og webpage you an find a complete listing of servers. Okay, I seem to be getting a little further forward. I opened the rpm, but it didn't seem to install properly. I went back and got in the tarball, untarred and unzipped it, then did the configure, which worked all right. The 'make"' left me with an error message: sysdeps/i386/elf/start.S:98: undefined reference to `main' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [.c] Error 1 Which I don't understand. (Sorry, I never claimed to be much beyond a newbie.) Any good advice for me now? Jim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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