How To Install goldendict on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
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Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install goldendict on Ubuntu.
What is goldendict
goldendict is:
Features:
- Use of WebKit for an accurate articles’ representation, complete with all formatting, colors, images and links.
- Support of multiple dictionary file formats, namely:
- Babylon .BGL files, complete with images and resources
- StarDict .ifo/.dict./.idx/.syn dictionaries
- Dictd .index/.dict(.dz) dictionary files
- ABBYY Lingvo .dsl source files, together with abbreviations. The files can be optionally compressed with dictzip. Dictionary resources can be packed together into a .zip file.
- ABBYY Lingvo .lsa/.dat audio archives. Those can be indexed separately, or be referred to from .dsl files.
- Support for Wikipedia, Wiktionary, or any other MediaWiki-based sites to perform lookups in.
- Ability to use arbitrary websites as dictionaries via templated Url patterns.
- Hunspell-based morphology system, used for word stemming and spelling suggestions.
- Ability to index arbitrary directories with audio files for pronunciation lookups.
- Full Unicode case, diacritics, punctuation and whitespace folding. This means the ability to type in words without any accents, correct case, punctuation or spaces (e.g. typing ‘Grussen’ would yield ‘grüßen’ in German dictionaries).
- Scan popup functionality. A small window pops up with the translation of a word chosen from another application.
- Support for global hotkeys. You can spawn the program window at any point, or directly translate a word from the clipboard.
- Tabbed browsing in a modern Qt 5 interface.
There are three methods to install goldendict on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install goldendict Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install goldendict using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install goldendict
Install goldendict Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install goldendict using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install goldendict
Install goldendict Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install goldendict using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install goldendict
How To Uninstall goldendict on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the goldendict package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove goldendict
Uninstall goldendict And Its Dependencies
To uninstall goldendict and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove goldendict
Remove goldendict Configurations and Data
To remove goldendict configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge goldendict
Remove goldendict configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove goldendict configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge goldendict
Dependencies
goldendict have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install goldendict package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.