Diclionary

A command-line interface for selected online dictionaries.

This project is currently in development.

Installation

Prebuilt packages are hosted at the OpenSUSE Build Service. You will need to add an appropriate repository to your package manager configuration before you can install these packages.

Debian/Ubuntu

Select an appropriate repository from https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/singon:/diclionary/ and add it to your system along with the Release.key contained in it. For example, on Ubuntu 20.04:

sudo echo 'deb https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/singon:/diclionary/xUbuntu_20.04/ /' >> /etc/apt/sources.list
curl -fsSL https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/singon:/diclionary/xUbuntu_20.04/Release.key | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt update
sudo apt install diclionary

Arch

Add this to your /etc/pacman.conf:

[home_singon_diclionary_Arch]
SigLevel = Never
Server = https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/singon:/diclionary/Arch/$arch

Then update the package database and install diclionary:

sudo pacman -Syyu
sudo pacman -S diclionary

From Source

You need to have the Crystal compiler available on your system. Refer to https://crystal-lang.org/install/ for installation instructions.

Once Crystal is installed, run make install in the project root to install Diclionary into your system. The default installation prefix is /usr/local. This can be changed by setting the PREFIX environment variable.

Usage

dicl <word>...

Supported Dictionaries

This is a list of dictionaries which can be searched with the current version:

• Slovník spisovného jazyka českého https://ssjc.ujc.cas.cz (Czech)