Smartdict

By Sergey Potapov.

WTF?

It's a simple dictionary written in Ruby and GTK.

Smartdict

Installation

Prerequisites

Debian/Ubuntu

On Debian/Ubuntu you need to install the next packages:

  • libglib2.0-dev
  • ligatk1.0-dev
  • libcairo-dev
  • libsqlite3-dev
  • libpango1.0-dev

To do that run:

apt-get install libglib2.0-dev ligatk1.0-dev libcairo-dev libsqlite3-dev libpango1.0-dev

Please report if you have issues or it's not complete list of required dependencies.

Ruby version

Tested on MRI 1.9.3-p125

Install the gem

gem install smartdict

Running

Command line:

smartdict --help

GUI:

smartdict-gtk

Configuring / adding new languages

Take a look at $HOME/.smartdict/configuration.yml.

Copyright (c) 2012 Potapov Sergey. The software is distributed under GNU GeneralPublic License version 2. See GPL-LICENSE.txt file for more details.