README.md

dict-ecdict

A port of Ultimate ECDICT database for Dictd

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Dependencies

• curl (makedpends)
• python3 (makedepends)
• make (makedepends)
• dictd (depends/makedepends)

Build && Installation

make # MINI=false
sudo make install

AUR

yay -S dict-ecdict-git # for Arch-based distros

Configuration

Add these lines below to /etc/dict/dictd.conf:

database ecdict {
data /usr/share/dict/ecdict.dict.dz
index /usr/share/dict/ecdict.index
}

Then restart dictd.service:

systemctl restart dictd

Acknowledgements

• dictd: DICT file format
• ECDICT: released under MIT license, all rights reserved by the author