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[Avraham Hanadari]

Sundar Nagarajan wrote:
> 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.
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Many thanks to Karl and Sundar. I'll try to implement your advice ASAP.
Avraham

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