Dict2 is a dictionary viewing application for Linux. It was written with the intention to be used with the German-English dictionary files from www.dict.cc.
Note: You must download the dictionary files directly from here. They are not included in the distribution.
Important: You should choose the old format when downloading (Elcombri / old format, cp1252). Other formats are not supported.
- Easy-to-use graphical interface.
- Regular expression (regex) search.
- Searching words with a common stem.
- Searching inflections of a word.
- Searching alternate forms of a word.
- Tabbed browsing.
- Caching to improve performance.
- Linux
- GCC
- GTK2 development files (libglade-2.0, libgnomeui-2.0)
- libiconv
./configure
make
make install
If you're missing the necessary libraries (configure gives an
error), try searching for libgnomeui, libglade, libiconv or
similar with your package manager. On Debian/Ubuntu the packages you
may need are called libglade2-dev and libgnomeui-dev.
A short manual is available at: https://lukaszcz.github.io/dict2.
There are several small dictionaries from Project Gutenberg that are
distributed together with Dict2. They are installed to
prefix/share/dict by default, where prefix is the directory you
passed as the --prefix parameter to configure (typically
/usr/local if you didn't pass anything).
The dictionary files are copyright by Winfried Honig. View them in an ordinary text editor to see the exact license requirements.
Dict2 was written with the main purpose to be used with the English-German/German-English dictionary files from www.dict.cc. These files are free to use, but the licence requires that they be not distributed together with any software for reading them, so you just have to fetch them form there.
You only need to unzip the downloaded file and load the text file by clicking the 'Load' button.
Important: You should choose the old format when downloading (Elcombri / old format, cp1252). Other formats are not supported.
The configuration may be changed from the GUI by clicking on the
'Options' button. It is saved in the file .dict.cfg in your home
directory, which itself should be intuitive enough to edit.
The program has a nice feature of finding dictionary entries that
match a particular Perl regular expression (regex). For information
about the exact syntax refer to the Perl manual (man perl; grep
regexes have similar syntax, so man grep may also be of use).
Copyright (C) 2006-2008 by Lukasz Czajka.
Distributed under GPL 2. See LICENSE.