* Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080617 01:00]: > 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.
Thanks, but I already did that, using the edit -> preferences menu of Dictionary 2.14.0. But the response is very slow (several seconds, because another machine on the network is doing a jidgo download), so it is obvious that the client is going out to dict.org. Perhaps dictd is not running? How can I check to see? RLH -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
