Great walk-through Ram. However, you can check this too: http://artha.sourceforge.net/ Artha: the Open thesaurus.
This light weight offline dictionary uses WordNet. People who miss WordWeb will surely love it for it's customizable hot-key and fast response. I've installed these dictionaries: stardict-BritannicaConcise-2.4.2.tar.bz2 stardict-cmudict-2.4.2.tar.bz2 stardict-cmupd-2.4.2.tar.bz2 stardict-comn_sdict_axm05_English_Hindi-2.4.2.tar.bz2 stardict-dictd-jargon-2.4.2.tar.bz2 stardict-dictd-moby-thesaurus-2.4.2.tar.bz2 stardict-dictd-vera-2.4.2.tar.bz2 stardict-dictd-web1913-2.4.2.tar.bz2 stardict-dictd_www.dict.org_foldoc-2.4.2.tar.bz2 stardict-dictd_www.dict.org_gcide-2.4.2.tar.bz2 stardict-dictd_www.dict.org_wn-2.4.2.tar.bz2 stardict-eng_irregular-2.4.2.tar.bz2 stardict-EnglishEtymology-2.4.2.tar.bz2 stardict-freedict-eng-hin-2.4.2.tar.bz2 stardict-longman-2.4.2.tar.bz2 stardict-merrianwebster-2.4.2.tar.bz2 stardict-oald-2.4.2.tar.bz2 stardict-oxford_collocations-2.4.2.tar.bz2 stardict-thesaurus-ee-2.4.2.tar.bz2 2010/2/1 Dibyajyoti Mohapatra <dib...@vubites.com> > >>> make sure the source name is checked, sometimes you may have added it but >>> the source name specified by you may not be selected. >>> >>> > >> Of course I did that, but still it didn't work. Also inside the "Add > dictionary source" dialog box, I could not find any dictionaries listed > however the list was available on the main window's "Available > dictionaries". > > > >> am posting below the details of >> /home/ram/.gnome2/gnome-dictionary/source-1260764916-30506.desktop >> this is my customized setup >> [Dictionary Source] >> Name=source-1260764916-30506 >> Description=localmocal >> Transport=dictd >> Hostname=127.0.0.1 >> Port=2628 >> ** >> > > >> This worked like charm!! There was no such file and I created it ;) Now > I can see the dictionaries in the list too!! > > >> at this stage it gets a bit beyond my skil level but the files are >> supposedly not normally editable >> > > >> You are amazing!! Thank you :) > > >> How ever as you can see my dictionary description is localmocal >> >> what does yours look like >> > > >> I liked the name "localmocal" and adapted the same for mine too :) > > > -- > Best Regards, > Dipu > > -- > ubuntu-in mailing list > ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in > > -- Amarendra Kumar Final Year Undergraduate Dept. of IT, NIT Patna http://amarendra.web.officelive.com "Stay hungry, stay foolish"
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