Mini-Howto: Installing a local DICT server
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Appendix B. Mini-Howto: Installing a local DICT server

Table of Contents

Obtaining and installing dictd
Obtaining databases
Additional preformatted databases
Configuration
Starting dictd automatically

Obtaining and installing dictd

At first the dictd daemon has to be installed. The easiest way to install dictd is using a precompiled package. Such a package is included both in Debian and SuSE Linux®. You can find packages that should work on all RPM based Linux® distributions on rpmfind.net.

If you want to compile dictd yourself, download ftp://ftp.dict.org/pub/dict/dictd-1.9.1.tar.gz. Compilation is easy, just unpack the archive and run ./configure, make and make install in the dictd folder. You might want to use the --prefix option of the configure script to install dictd in a different folder. By default dictd will be installed in /usr/local.

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