How To Install stardict-plugin 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 stardict-plugin on Ubuntu.
What is stardict-plugin
stardict-plugin is:
StarDict is a cross-platform international dictionary lookup program.
Main features:
- Glob-style pattern matching search
- Fuzzy search
- Working from system tray
- Scanning mouse selection and showing pop-up windows with translation of selected words
- Pronouncing of the translated words
- Plugins support
- ..and more
This package contains some add-on plugins for StarDict. Includes:
- man virtual dict plugin
- qqwry virtual dict plugin
- html parse plugin
- xdxf parse plugin
- wordnet plugin
- powerword parse plugin
- wiki parse plugin
- customdict plugin
- stardict_espeak_ng plugin
- stardict_flite plugin
- stardict_gucharmap plugin
- stardict_update_info plugin
- stardict_youdaodict plugin
There are three methods to install stardict-plugin 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 stardict-plugin Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install stardict-plugin using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install stardict-plugin
Install stardict-plugin Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install stardict-plugin using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install stardict-plugin
Install stardict-plugin 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 stardict-plugin using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install stardict-plugin
How To Uninstall stardict-plugin on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the stardict-plugin package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove stardict-plugin
Uninstall stardict-plugin And Its Dependencies
To uninstall stardict-plugin and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove stardict-plugin
Remove stardict-plugin Configurations and Data
To remove stardict-plugin configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge stardict-plugin
Remove stardict-plugin configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove stardict-plugin configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge stardict-plugin
Dependencies
stardict-plugin have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install stardict-plugin package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.