Offline dictionary for ubuntu 10.04

Posted by on June 28, 2010 Leave a comment (22) Go to comments
Why offline dictionary ..?
Anyway ubuntu 10.04 have dictionary by default. You can find the dictionary from Application → office → Dictionary. You can find the meaning of a english word using this. When you search for meaning of a word its communicate with online dictionary server for ex. dict.org then get the result. If you not having the Net connection / poor connection its useless. In this situation offline dictionary will helpful to you. For this you need to install dictionary server in your local ubuntu machine. here is how to do this.
How to install dictionary server in local ..?
Goto terminal and run the following commands
sudo apt-get install dictd
sudo apt-get install dict-gcide
sudo apt-get install dict-moby-thesaurus

dictd – This is the Dictionary server which supports DICT protocol.
dict-gcide – English Dictionary
dict-moby-thesaurus – thesaurus data source in English. This is an optional one

Yes now you are successfully installed a dictionary server. Now you need to add this server with your dictionary client.

How to add local dictionary to dictionary client ..?
Goto Dictionary then Edit → Preference

Click the “Add” button to add a new dictionary

Enter your local dictionary details.
Dictionary name : Default
Transport : Dictionary Server
Hostname : 127.0.0.1
Port : 2628

Thats all. Now you can search locally.

Update on 6th June 2011:
Now I found an application for offline Dictionary from ubuntu software center you can install it from here. Name is Artha .

Update on 20th November 2011:

Here I have given steps for installing dictionary server for a dictionary client such as “Gnome Dictionary”. Before Installing dictionary server make sure do have any dictionary client.

sudo apt-get install gnome-dictionary

this is the command for installing Gnome Dictionary.

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22 Comments.

  1. shreyas December 24, 2011 at 6:31 am

    How to install in ubuntu 11.10?

    I have installed it using those commands but could not find where it is installed?

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    • Arul December 24, 2011 at 11:51 am

      you can find this in Application –> Office –> Dictionary. If its not there try to install “sudo apt-get install gnome-dictionary”. Please see my update at the End.

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  2. Shashank December 19, 2011 at 5:10 pm

    thanx a ton for your post……
    i helped me a lot
    can u also guide us on 1 thing
    :how to get the specified names of the applications
    i.e.in “sudo apt-get install dict-gcide” how to came to know about “dict-gcide”??

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  3. Ela December 10, 2011 at 5:16 am

    It works wonderfully. Thank you for sharing.

    Reply
  4. Ravi October 1, 2011 at 12:45 pm

    nice work…one stop install :)

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  6. Karen August 21, 2011 at 2:05 pm

    Thank you very much! This is very helpful and worked great.

    Reply
  7. sibaram June 25, 2011 at 10:50 pm

    hi…
    i installed the dictionary by above command,
    but there is a problem that i am unable to find that dictionary on application->office directory
    i am using ubuntu 10.04 operating system.
    plz kindly help me.

    Reply
    • Gopi November 20, 2011 at 12:25 am

      I am also getting the same prob

      plz help me…..

      Reply
      • Arul November 20, 2011 at 3:29 am

        For creating shortcut in Application

        Goto Main menu
        Create New item for dictionary in office
        command is ‘gnome-dictionary’

        before that make sure u have installed Gnome dictionary in ur machine. To install dictionary

        sudo apt-get install gnome-dictionary

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  9. abdullah June 5, 2011 at 8:32 am

    thanks a lot

    Reply
  10. jake February 7, 2011 at 6:28 am

    E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock – open (13: Permission denied)
    E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?

    for me it didn’t work the message that shown was i gave above .

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  11. beekey December 18, 2010 at 9:33 am

    thanks a lot. very helpful esp. when we are leaving the monopoly of windows.

    Reply
  12. sharifthesmart November 26, 2010 at 1:00 am

    your the best dude…
    tnx a lot…

    Reply
  13. cpsingh August 12, 2010 at 12:58 pm

    thanks a lot sir.
    it is very helpful for every one.

    Reply
  14. wordman August 2, 2010 at 6:25 am

    Nice work!

    Reply
  15. elanchezhiyank July 20, 2010 at 7:43 am

    thanks man.
    it worked.

    Reply
  16. vivek July 4, 2010 at 10:02 pm

    thank you very much sir…
    that was really helpful….

    Reply

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