how to install stardict dictionaries on nokia n800
 

hello,

I've downloaded stardict + the oxford dictionary (on "removable memory card") but cannot understand how to

a) un-tar it
b) have it run on stardic

could you please help? thanks!

Re: how to install stardict dictionaries on nokia n800
 

It is much easier to install the application from the application manager directly.

http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/stardict/

Instructions on where to copy the dictionaries (oxford etc) are also described in the above web page.

PS: if you are look for the newer 3.00, I would recommend to stick with the proven 2.48 (above). The 3.00 has 'hanging' problem with dictionaries caching, and it is not hildonized.

Re: how to install stardict dictionaries on nokia n800
 

Thanks. I downloaded Stardict through Application Manager (got the 2.4.8 version)
and stored the file (oxford dict) stardict-oald-2.4.2 in
removable memory card/stardict/dic. Is this correct? I'm not sure I really
understand the content of the link you gave. What's next? Do I have to
un-pack the stardict-oald-2.4.2 file? How do I do this? I tried to download
bzip2, but cannot figure out how to use it. I suppose I need to give a few
commands at the XTerminal, could you please give me a list of such
commands, including anything that it needed to get stardict work. So if
you could me a step-by-step guide it'd really be great. I've been looking
out for one but keep coming across technical language I don't understand...
thanks for your help!

Re: how to install stardict dictionaries on nokia n800
 

What I did was connect the n800 to my pc and untar the dictionary files there using 7-zip (http://www.7-zip.org). You have to put the files in a 'stardict' folder and a subfolder 'dic' on your removable memory. It won't work if you've created the folders on the nokia's internal memory. Hope this helps!

Re: how to install stardict dictionaries on nokia n800
 

I'm using StarDict on Linux Ubuntu 8.04 on my laptop no problem. I'm not sure about using 7-zip on Linux...I tried to copy & paste the file "stardict-oald-2.4.2.tar.bz2" (untarred) from my laptop to my Nokia N800 > removable memory/stardict/dic, but stardict still tells me that "no dictionoaries are loaded".

When I installed the above StarDict dictionary on my laptop, I untarred it through the command (on terminal)

~$ tar -xjvf stardict-oald-2.4.2.tar.bz2

then I created a specific directory by

sudo mkdir /usr/share/stardict/dic

and finally moved the untarred file there:

sudo mv /home/XXXXXXX/stardict-oald-2.4.2/ /usr/share/stardict/dic/

Can I make use of a similar procedure on my Nokia N800 to FINALLY be able to use StarDict? Alternatively?

Thanks again for your help.

Re: how to install stardict dictionaries on nokia n800
 

Yes, you can do almost the same.

1. download bzip2
2. bunzip2 <file>
3. tar xvf <file.tar>
4. mv /home/XXXXXXX/stardict-oald-2.4.2/ /usr/share/stardict/dic/

Re: how to install stardict dictionaries on nokia n800
 

I have the same problem, and thanks a lot for your direction. But one more question, I can not copy the folder to the target /usr/share/stardict/dic/. I check the attribute of that, which is drwxr-xr-x 2 root root. How could I do now?

Re: how to install stardict dictionaries on nokia n800
 

I used the folder underneath, and it works. Thanks.

* /media/mmc1/stardict/dic
* /media/mmc2/stardict/dic (N800 only)
* /usr/share/stardict/dic
* ~/.stardict/dic

Re: how to install stardict dictionaries on nokia n800
 

Help, I have trouble now. What I used is N810 and I did what I posted before. Everything is fine before I power it off when it almost out of power, and the stardict does work after I boot up my N810 again. One more thing I did before that is I copied three more dictionaries into the same folder unziped in windows Vista. And I tried the dictionary worked well.

I tried uninstalled and reinstall it and does not work.