Deen is a simple German-English bi-lingual dictionary program. It provides only a simple prefix-search, but that's actually fairly helpful. The indexing process takes a very long time, but this only needs to happen initially.
Andrew Lindesay apl@lindesay.co.nz (web)
Please see the LICENSE.TXT file for the license that governs the use of this software.
This software is designed to be built and run in a UN*X-like environment. To build this software requires;
- C-Compiler
makebuild toolflexparser generator toolwgetfile-download toolunzipdecompression tool- Internet connection to download
sqlite3library
To build the software run the make command at the top level. This will fairly quickly produce a deen executable. If you want to get a debug build use make DEBUG=1.
Deen will build on the MinGW environment. You will need to ensure that the prerequisite tools listed above are installed using the MinGW installation tool.
Your installation should have the tools required to build, but in case not;
sudo apt-get install wget flex make unzip gcc
Install the Apple developers' tools.
The Haiku default install should have all the tools necessary to compile deen.
There is presently no installation target so just use the resultant binary directly. This is either deen or deen.exe on Windows.
To release a Deen version, edit the version number in the Makefile. To obtain a release version;
make clean
make
The data used with Deen comes from a project known as Ding. You will need to download Ding's data to use Deen. At the time of writing this data can be found here. You will need to decompress the Ding data before use. By default, Deen will install the data into a .deen directory in the user's home directory. To specify another location where Deen should store its data, configure an environment variable DEENDATAHOME.
If you no longer want to use Deen then you should delete this directory as well as the Deen binary. See the "Data" section for information on the location of this directory.
The deen command can be run with no arguments to see what options can be used with it.
To install the data and index it, you need to run the deen tool as follows;
deen -i de-en.txt
This will take some time to complete. It will output to the console to indicate what it is doing.
To search for an entry, you run deen as follows;
deen Werkzeug
If you would like to find entries with two words then provide those as one argument by quoting them.
deen "astronaut launch"
In most modern terminals, the software should be able to cope with "umlaut characters" or the "scharfes S". If your terminal doesn't support such characters, Deen can also handle abbreviations such as "ae" and "oe" (as in "Koenig") and will translate those latinizations to the corresponding accented characters.
Deen only shows a small number of the results. Use the -c option to opt to show more or less results.