Now you need to download some databases. The standard set (webster, wordnet, jargon file, foldoc, ...) that is present on the DICT server of dict.org, is available from ftp://ftp.dict.org/pub/dict/pre/. These are also available as Debian and rpm packages.
Translating dictionaries for Africaans, Czech, Danish, English, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Nederlands (Dutch), Portuguese, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Swedish, Slovak, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Turkish and Welsh
Translating dictionaries for English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Portugue and Spanish.
Esperanto dictionary
OBI's Online Biographical Dictionary
The Inaugural Addresses of all the US presidents
You can find more databases on the link page of www.dict.org, but the majority of them are not formatted for dictd.
Each database consists of two files: The *.index
file contains the index and the
*.dict.dz
file the actual
data. Unpack all packages into a folder of your choice, for example
/usr/share/dict/
.
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