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Re: How to install dictionaries for QStarDict ?

hmm, this dictionary does not give me the definitions, only the translations (if i have english -language), even mstardict.

but thanks......useful in my location

Re: How to install dictionaries for QStarDict ?

Either Qstardict is insane, or I am.
I did everything humanly possible to get it see dics.
And finally i got my answer, it uses incompatible library libstardict.so
Crap!

Re: How to install dictionaries for QStarDict ?

hi

no thing happens when I clicked on the wrench tool.

please help me in dowloading dictionary with Qstardict application-N900

Re: How to install dictionaries for QStarDict ?

i need english - malay dict....is it available???

Re: How to install dictionaries for QStarDict ?

Here it's same problem: when clicking on the wrench tool nothing happens.
I switched to mstardict, with excellent results! ;-)

Re: How to install dictionaries for QStarDict ?

Then do

Code:

mkdir -p ~/.stardict/dic

(only needed the first time you install a dictionary) followed by

Code:

tar xzvf dictionary.tar.gz -C ~/.stardict/dic

(where "dictionary" should be replaced by the actual name of the dictionary/-ies that you downloaded.

However, with the more common tarballs of the form dictionary.tar.bz2
you should do the following instead of the tar command given in the wiki, because the "j" option for tar is not implemented in Maemo:

Code:

bunzip2 dictionary.tar.bz2

tar xvf dictionary.tar -C ~/.stardict/dic

For this you need to have the "bzip2" package installed, which is in nokia-applications. It was already installed in my case, perhaps brought in by some other app. To install it yourself from XTerminal, in case it's missing, you need to have the "rootsh" app installed, which allows you to do

Code:

sudo apt-get install bzip2

.

Thanks [COLOR="Black"]Thank you for your assistance..

I got stuck after the above step and the xternal returns a message "tar: can't open `dictionary.tar.gz`.

I bank on your assistance

Thanks

Re: How to install dictionaries for QStarDict ?

Quote:

Originally Posted by rebhana (Post 558112)

Here is how I installed dictionaries without any hassle of unpacking on a PC and transferring files manually as almost all how-to's on talk.maemo.org suggest you to do - which is really unnecessary, the N900 is a full-fledged computer after all!

Code:

bunzip2 dictionary.tar.bz2

tar xvf dictionary.tar -C ~/.stardict/dic

Code:

sudo apt-get install bzip2

.
If you've successfully installed one such dictionary, repeat the two-line "bunzip2 ..., tar ..." stanza for any further one you find on the web. This can also be done in one line:

Code:

bzcat dictionary.tar.bz2 | tar xv -C ~/.stardict/dic

Finally, to enable/disable dictionaries, go to Menu/Config->Dictionaries in qstardict. "V" stands for a check mark for activated dictionaries, "0" for disabled ones, and to change that you have to click on the tiny blob at the start of a line.

Hi thank you for the suport.
I got this error when I entered the bunzip2 dictionary.tar.bz2 command. bunzip2: not found.

I have installed the rootsh
I appreciate ur response

Re: How to install dictionaries for QStarDict ?

Thanks Zimon,

I want to find out if the step is applicable for the qstardict?

I have tried and got stuck here

1) after command 10, it returns a message (-sh: In: not found)

What can I do to overcome that?

Re: How to install dictionaries for QStarDict ?

Quote:

Originally Posted by asasan (Post 590513)

Nokia Applications repository is the first one in my catalog list, but there is no bzip or anything like it to download.

Let me see if I can write like you people..maybe someone would understand:
//user/ CAN SOMEONE //rooth
.cd POST THE EXACT LOCATION AND COMMANDS //mkdir..blabla
cd .. TO INSTALL THIS FREAKING BZIP APPLICATION -v -u lsdd foo
++==lulu ..// IT IS NOT ALREADY ON N900 ..mkdir qass
-z -r //..hhh +r +r OR PUT THE DAMN THING AS PART OF THE MISERABLE QStar SO PEOPLE CAN LOAD THE CRAP //mkdir -d

Hi Asasan,

I need your help on this;

I want to find out if the steps are applicable for the qstardict?

I have tried and got stuck here
1) after command 10, it returns a message (-sh: In: not found)