Obtaining databases
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Obtaining databases

Now you need to download some databases. The standard set (webster, wordnet, jargon file, foldoc, ...) that is present on the DICT server of dict.org, is available from ftp://ftp.dict.org/pub/dict/pre/. These are also available as Debian and rpm packages.

Additional preformatted databases

www.freedict.de

Translating dictionaries for Africaans, Czech, Danish, English, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Nederlands (Dutch), Portuguese, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Swedish, Slovak, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Turkish and Welsh

http://www.wh9.tu-dresden.de/~heinrich/dict/

Translating dictionaries for English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Portugue and Spanish.

http://purl.oclc.org/NET/voko/revodict.tgz

Esperanto dictionary

http://www.bainsware.com/downloads/obi-bio.tar.gz

OBI's Online Biographical Dictionary

http://www.bainsware.com/downloads/inaug.tar.gzhttp://www.bainsware.com/downloads/inaug.tar.gz

The Inaugural Addresses of all the US presidents

You can find more databases on the link page of www.dict.org, but the majority of them are not formatted for dictd.

Each database consists of two files: The *.index file contains the index and the *.dict.dz file the actual data. Unpack all packages into a folder of your choice, for example /usr/share/dict/.

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