Re: stardict dictionary packages.

2011-04-04 Thread John Hasler
Sthu Deus writes: > Can't it be moved to non-free repo then? If distributing it would infringe a copyright it Debian cannot and will not distribute it. Non-free is for packages that can legally be distributed but that do not comply with the Debian Free Software Guidelines, such as ones containing

Re: stardict dictionary packages.

2011-01-18 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Freeman: > You might try that script Camaleon refers to. The benefit of the site > is that there are more dictionaries available than in the repos. Yes, You are right and that's what I have done. A lot of options is a good thing, but I guess when it becomes ne

Re: stardict dictionary packages.

2011-01-18 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, T: > I had discussed the very same question with the stardict author > before. The reason for above is, none of the existing dictionaries, > including all that from dict, can be claimed to be copyright free. We > had a list of over 10+ dictionaries, and in the e

Re: stardict dictionary packages.

2011-01-18 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón: > http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/dictconv > > (again, not tested) :-) > > > Do You have any better idea? > > Use the dictionaries provided by Stardict in their web page. Well. It is not as good as the auto conversion at update moment - to me

Re: stardict dictionary packages.

2011-01-16 Thread Freeman
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 07:47:04PM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > Thank You for Your time and answer, Freeman: > > > When I opened stardict, it returned an error that no dictionaries > > were found and it gave the url I mentioned. > > > > I downloaded the compressed dictionaries from the dictd collect

Re: stardict dictionary packages.

2011-01-16 Thread Freeman
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 11:11:13AM +, Camaleón wrote: > > Let's see what the stardict doc says... ah, okay, it points to this > address to download some dictionaries: > > http://stardict.sourceforge.net/Dictionaries.php > > As per the "readme.debian" file it seems those files cannot be pack

Re: stardict dictionary packages.

2011-01-16 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 16 Jan 2011 19:49:54 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón: > >> Ah, now I get it. Freedict files (like the one you downloaded) need to >> be converted to Stardict format before using. > > So, in order to automate the dictionaries updates for qstardict, I

Re: stardict dictionary packages.

2011-01-16 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón: > Ah, now I get it. Freedict files (like the one you downloaded) need > to be converted to Stardict format before using. So, in order to automate the dictionaries updates for qstardict, I have to write a script that would make such a conversion. Do Y

Re: stardict dictionary packages.

2011-01-16 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Freeman: > When I opened stardict, it returned an error that no dictionaries > were found and it gave the url I mentioned. > > I downloaded the compressed dictionaries from the dictd collection > there and, as root, extracted them to the directory described, >

Re: stardict dictionary packages.

2011-01-16 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 16 Jan 2011 15:11:57 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón: > >> > Good day. >> >> It's late afternoon here :-P > > Point taken. Now I'll be greeting w/ "Good time of the day." :) That sentence is infallible (timezone-proof) :-) >> Aren't "dict-freedic

Re: stardict dictionary packages.

2011-01-16 Thread Freeman
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 03:14:48PM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > Thank You for Your time and answer, Freeman: > > > The dictd dictionaries on my system don't work but the tarballs of > > the same dictionaries from yeelou.com do. I kind of like stardict. > > Once it is running, it is as fast as dictd a

Re: stardict dictionary packages.

2011-01-16 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Freeman: > The dictd dictionaries on my system don't work but the tarballs of > the same dictionaries from yeelou.com do. I kind of like stardict. > Once it is running, it is as fast as dictd at the command line. Am I correct to suppose that in order to use qst

Re: stardict dictionary packages.

2011-01-16 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón: > > Good day. > > It's late afternoon here :-P Point taken. Now I'll be greeting w/ "Good time of the day." :) > Aren't "dict-freedict-*-*" packages working with Stardict? (just > asking because I have not tested) :-? I have installed one - dict-fr

Re: stardict dictionary packages.

2011-01-15 Thread Freeman
On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 01:15:11PM -0800, evenso wrote: > On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 07:52:01PM +, Camaleón wrote: > > On Sun, 16 Jan 2011 01:50:39 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > > > > > Good day. > > > > It's late afternoon here :-P > > > > > Are in Debian the packages holding dictionaries capable

Re: stardict dictionary packages.

2011-01-15 Thread Freeman
On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 07:52:01PM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 16 Jan 2011 01:50:39 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > > > Good day. > > It's late afternoon here :-P > > > Are in Debian the packages holding dictionaries capable to work w/ > > stardict? > > > > I see plenty of dictionaries for dict

Re: stardict dictionary packages.

2011-01-15 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 16 Jan 2011 01:50:39 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > Good day. It's late afternoon here :-P > Are in Debian the packages holding dictionaries capable to work w/ > stardict? > > I see plenty of dictionaries for dict use, for example, but not for > stardict. Or it is almost unusable program in