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I have added quite a few dictionaries to goldendict

However not sure how to add these dictionaries to dictd

When I query using "dict siphon",

it returns entries from wn, gcide, and moby-thesaurus, not from the additional few dictionaries I have added to goldendict.

Not sure if dictd support wide ranging dictionary format like goldendict,

For those dictionary formats supported by dictd, how do I add them to dictd to be included in its search list ?

raymondraymond1
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The normal method of adding dictionaries is by editing

/etc/dict/dictd.conf

Example:

database eng-spa {
    data /usr/share/dictd/eng-spa.dict.dz
    index /usr/share/dictd/eng-spa.index   
}

... adds the English-Spanish dictionary installed by dict-freedict-eng-spa. For other dictionaries, copy and paste the above database declaration but make sure to change the database name, i.e. eng-spa, and also change the data and index paths above to specify the right files.

From Arch WIKI on dictd.

After changing the configuration the service needs to be reloaded (dictd.service)

Not sure if dictd support wide ranging dictionary format like goldendict,

The other way round: Goldendict has support for dictd so it will be a matter of adding the correct directories.

Rinzwind
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  • When I look at the files in the additional dictionaries installed for goldendict, they are in .mdd, .mdx, .css file type, how do I convert these file format into .dict.dz and .index file in order to be included the /etc/dict/dictd.conf ? – raymondraymond1 Apr 14 '19 at 07:14
  • https://github.com/goldendict/goldendict/wiki/Supported-Dictionary-Formats link provides information that (.index and .dict.dz) is Dictd dictionary, and (.mdd, .mdx) is MDict dictionary, so I will google to find out how to convert from MDict dictionary to Dictd dictionary in order to include in /etc/dict/dictd.conf – raymondraymond1 Apr 14 '19 at 07:26
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    https://github.com/ilius/pyglossary this link seems to provide a tool to convert MDict to Dictd dictionary format, however, I don't know how to install pyglossary, can you help ? – raymondraymond1 Apr 14 '19 at 07:51
  • I just downloaded the 2009 pyglossary file from https://code.google.com/archive/p/pyglossary/downloads, however, I encounter warning message "This type of file can harm your computer, do you want to keep pyglossary_2009...deb anyway ? Do I ignore this warning ? – raymondraymond1 Apr 14 '19 at 08:05
  • Let us continue this discussion in chat. – raymondraymond1 Apr 14 '19 at 08:16