Installing English – Malayalam Dictionary on Arch linux
Saturday, September 12th, 2009From a discussion on ilug-tvm mailinglist
Prerequisites : yaourt should be installed
Installing the server
Step 1: Issue the following command on a terminal and answer whatever questions may pop up. This will install the dictd server to your system: yaourt -S dict-freedict-eng-mal
Step 2: start the dictd server by issuing the following command :
* If you have sudo installed , then : sudo /etc/rc.d/dictd start
* else become super user by typing in su at a terminal and inputting the super user password . Now run /etc/rc.d/dictd start
Step 3 [ optional ] : If you wish to use the server quiet frequently, you might want to have it running always. For that, add dictd to the end of DAEMONS list in your rc.cof
eg: (syslog-ng dbus hal @cpufreq @net-profiles @network @netfs @crond alsa @sshd @dictd)
The @ makes your process startup in backround and init wont wait for the startup to complete before proceeding .
Installing the client :
I use a client called dikt. I installed it by issueing the following command : yaourt -S dikt. Once this is complete, startup dikt. Click on Settings>Configure Dikt. In the window that pops up , you can add your own dict servers. Just type in ‘localhost’ and add it to the servers list. It will be better if you can move the dict.org entry or you can remove the dict.org entry if you will be using only English-Malayalam dictionary. Now you can start using dikt to lookup words.
I know the whole thing looks a little tedious, but this is what i did , and it works 