Hi,
Don't you think, not having a dictionary near you is a very frustrating
thing when you want to know the meaning of a word. I was also frustrated
with this and I was forced to use windows. But not anymore, I am using a
dictionary in Linux using Wine (cheers! the windows emulator or wine is not
an emulator :-), the dicitonary / thesaurus is a freeware and can be
redistributed. It's name is "Word Web Dictionary/Thesaurus" version 1.62 by
Antony Lewis and you can
get it from:
http://www.x-word.com/thesaurus, download the wdweb162.exe and run the setup
file in windows. Since this is a windows based package.
To use this dictionary in Linux, please download wine from:
http://wine.dataparty.no/ and download the latest wine-cvs-stripped build
rpm.
I use wine-cvs-stripped-20000614.rpm (yyyymmdd) build (old one of course). I
downloaded the Binary RPM file and also the wine.conf for windows machine,
since I use both windows and Linux (you can get more information there.). I
agree wine is slow, but having something is better than having nothing! and
it will get faster in the coming releases. And of course, WordWeb Thesaurus
is great! so, Let's do the installation (RedHat & should be Mandrake
specific):
1. rpm -ivh wine-cvs-stripped*.rpm (install)
2. copy the 'wine.conf' to '/etc/wine/' folder
3. You have to do 2 minor changes; so, edit the 'wine.conf' using you
favorite text editor/word processor; and in the file change
i) from "Path=/c" to "Path=/mnt/c" in section [Drive C],
ii) from "Path=/cdrom" to "Path=/mnt/cdrom" in section [Drive D].
4. All done, save the file and exit.
if you have mounted drive C (i.e., /dev/hda1(primary master)) on '/mnt/c',
you won't have any trouble running windows 16 and most 32bit applications.
Let's try running MS Word, I have MS Office 97, so here is the command:
$ wine /mnt/c/"Program Files"/"Microsoft Office"/"Office"/Winword.exe &
Likewise you can run the Dictionary ( I extracted the WordWeb in
"/mnt/c/Dictionary" folder, so here is the command:
$ wine /mnt/c/Dictionary/wweb32.exe &
Though initially, the dictionary and other applications, such as MS Word
take long period to show up, subsequently it will work faster (since wine is
get stored in the cache) I am including a small shell script with comments,
and the modified wine.conf file for your hassle free installation. I claim
no warranty of any kind, I am writing this because I wish you don't have to
experience the same difficulty and to thank Linux users, for helping each
other. Though I am not a Linux expert, I still wish to help you.
Please copy all the files (wine*.rpm) and attachments (install.sh,
uninstall.sh and wine.conf) to a folder, move to that folder and run
the shell script files as shown below.
to INSTALL run:
$ chmod a+x install.sh
$ ./install.sh
to UNINSTALL run:
$ chmod a+x uninstall.sh
$ ./uninstall.sh
that's all. Remember you must be root and all the files should be in the
same folder for installing. Hope you will find my help useful...Thanks for
reading such a big mail...
Your's truly,
Rizwaan.
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