mDictionary

multilingual dictionary for (N770, N800 & N810)

  and (N900 & netbook )

mDictionary Multilingual Dictionary Installation.

new mDictionary consists of three modules:

mdictionary - core application
homescreen-widget - widget for desktop
mdictionaryplugins - engines (for example: "mdictionary-stardict-plugin")

All of them are located in different packages. Program needs to work only installation "mDictionary" package. Other packages only extends the functionality.

old mDictionary consists of three modules:

mdictionary - core application
mdictionarygui - the graphical user interface
mdictionaryplugins - engines

All of them are placed in one binary package - mDictionary.

MeeGo and Maemo instalation

  • Download the binary package from download section
  • Open the file manager and double click on downloaded file.
  • Ignore all these warnings.

    • Nokia N770 & N800 & N810 installation

    mDictionary installation steps for OS2008

    Mdictionary requires libbz2 library to be able to work. To install libbz library repository with libbz package should be added to application catalogue and „Red pill mode” should be activated. To add the repository with libbz2 package you can click on INSTALL or perform following steps to add repository manually:

    1. Go to Main Menu -> Setting -> Applications manager
    2. Go to Tools -> Application catalogue...
    3. Click New and enter:
      Catalogue name: Maemo Chinook
      Web address: http://repository.maemo.org
      Distribution: chinook
      Components: free non-free
      Be sure that this repository was not added before !

    To activate „Red pill mode” follow this steps:
    1. Go to Main Menu -> Setting -> Applications manager
    2. Go to Tools -> Application catalogue...
    3. Click New and enter matrix into Web address (remember to remove http:// entry)
    4. Click on Cancel. Question about pill should be displayed. Click on Red. To deactivate „Red pill mode” repeat above steps but in last step Click on Blue.

    Now click on Browse installable applications go to Tools->Search and enter libbz2 into Search word field and click OK. Click and install libbz2-1.0 package.
    After successful installation of libz2 package you should be able to install mdctionary without any problems by clicking on INSTALL.

    mDictionary installation steps for OS2007 and OS2006

    In order to install our application click INSTALL or make the following steps:

    1. Download the binary package from our download section
    2. Open the file manager and double click on downloaded file.
    3. A window will pop up notifying you that the package hasn't been verified by Nokia. In order to install the dictionary you will have to ignore these warnings.

    Scratchbox installation

    - Download the binary package from our download section
    - Log into scratchbox and become root by issuing the command: fakeroot su
    - Install mDictionary package mentioned above by using: dpkg -i package_name.

    Our application allows for using various parsing engines, so that different dictionary formats could be used. We have included a XDXF and StarDict format parsing engine to provide an example and to make it usable.

    Installing new dictionaries

    Dictionaries in mDictionary are files containing the words database. For now we have only included a package containing a XDXF and StarDict format parser. You are welcome to contribute new parsing engines and we hope you will find our API documentation useful in development process. In order to add new dictionaries you'll have to download files containing the words database and make sure you have the appropriate parsing engine installed. As far as the XDXF and StarDict formats are concerned, they can be found under this address: http://xdxf.revdanica.com/down

    Place the dictionary file wherever you wish, however it has to be reachable by the application. In order to register new file in our dictionary, choose the Load Dictionary option from the application menu. To make XDXF dictionaries to work faster, you can optimize them (a special dialog will lead you through this procces). StarDict dictionaries do not require optimalization (there is no difference if you enable optimizing or not). If you would like to exclude a dictionary from searching, use the Select Dictionary option from the menu and check/uncheck a box next to your desired file.

    In order to unregister dictionary from mDictionary, use the Remove Dictionary option. This will not erase the file however, you will have to do it manually if you want to remove it from your device.

    Uninstalling the application

    Uninstalling mDictionary can be performed using the Application Manager. Enter the Show Installed Applications item and uninstall mdictionary package.