On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 12:28:26AM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: > Running Debian and the Gnome desktop, what is necessary for a > dictionary which may be used off-line -- that is, going to localhost > rather than to dict.org ? > > The man pages for dict and dictd don't appear to discuss off-line > access. The instructions I found in a wiki titled "Gnome-dictionary > Offline" do not agree with the menus which I find in Dictionary > 2.14.0.
I only use the dict-packages offline. Just install all the dictionaries you want to use and make sure that your dict client refer to localhost as server. Regards Johann -- Johann Spies Telefoon: 021-808 4036 Informasietegnologie, Universiteit van Stellenbosch "Many are the afflictions of the righteous; but the LORD delivereth him out of them all." Psalms 34:19 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]