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[Sundar Nagarajan]

Avraham Hanadari wrote:
> Avraham Hanadari wrote:
>> My computer activity involves working in several languages. Babylon has 
>> been an essential tool in my Windows office for several years. I have 
>> been looking for a similar tool in Ubuntu (9.04) 
> 
> 
> Perhaps I presented my problem in a convoluted manner.
> 
> QStarDict is currently on board. It does not find the dictionaries which 
> I have downloaded.
> 
> Where should they be for QStarDict to find them? What is a good source 
> for bilingual dictionaries that QStarDict will recognize?

I don't have QStardict, but I did a quick check on manpages.ubuntu.com 
(a marvelous resource, by the way to check man pages for packages you do 
not have installed). This is from the the Intrepid (8.10) version:

	Dictionaries for StarDict plugin are in StarDict format and by
	default must be placed into /usr/share/stardict/dic or
	~/.stardict/dic directories.
	A dictionary must consist of three files:

	         - .dict[.dz] file - main dictionary file
	         - .idx - index file
	         - .ifo - description file

	These files must be placed together in one directory.

You can see the man page here:
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/intrepid/man1/qstardict.1.html

Sundar.