Stardict has gone & Pan problem in Ubuntu 20.04

[Juan R. de Silva]

On Tue, 18 Aug 2020 12:02:18 +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote:

> hi,
> Am Montag, den 17.08.2020, 23:44 +0000 schrieb Juan R. de Silva:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Can somebody enlighten me on why Stardict removed from Ubuntu 20.04
>> repos? Only QStardict, which is not a half as good as the original app
>> is available. Why they decided to get rid of a good venerable Stardict?
> 
> https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/stardict
> 
> https://tracker.debian.org/news/1119327/removed-306dfsg-03-from-unstabl
> e/
> 
> you have to ask debian ... Ubuntu just syncs it from there and they
> decided to drop it (my guess would be because it is dead upstream and
> was hard to port to python3)

Yes, you are right Debian indeed removed it from unstable for somewhat 
reason, and I've missed it.

But I do not think your guess about python is correct. Here what I've 
done... I installed all required deb packages for Stardict copied from my 
Debian apt/cache on Ubuntu 20.04. No complaints during installation and 
Stardict works as a charm as expected.

I hope Debian removed from Unstable only temporarily. Stardict if by far 
the best app of a kind. It is simple and up to the point.

Thanks for your interest.