[Announce] Aard Dictionary released
 

Aard Dictionary is a multiplatform dictionary and offline Wikipedia viewer.
Install: http://aarddict.org/aarddict.install
Download: English Wikipedia (torrent)
Discuss: http://aarddict.org/forum

Re: [Announce] Aard Dictionary released
 

I would love to be able to use this for the Merriam Webster's Dictionary but I can't get the aardtools to install on my machine (X11 on a Mac OSX Leopard). I keep getting various errors. So I can't get the XDXF file converted. Is there any place that has more dictionary option in aar format for downloading?

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Two dictionaries can be found here:

http://aarddict.org/index.html

thaibill

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The trouble with Merriam Webster's XDXF is that it is most likely distributed without permission from copyright owners- which is why this otherwise fine dictionary is not up for download at aarddict.org.

As far as aardtools go, I was able to get it to work on Mac OS X with MacPorts 1.600 (to get ICU 3.8), but it is a tedious process and my environment is not clean, so I can't provide reliable instructions (also, current MacPorts is 1.7.0, which has ICU 4.0 - not sure if that would work at all). I can outline basic steps if you feel like trying it, but there's probably quite a lot of details you will have to figure out yourself.

An easier way though may be to run Ubuntu in a virtual machine (install VMWare Fusion and download Ubuntu VMWare appliance, or run it in VirtualBox) and install aardtools there.

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The english wikipedia torrent doesn't link anywhere or start.

Do we run it inside maemo?

Plus, how big is the dictionary?

Re: [Announce] Aard Dictionary released
 

The link points to enwiki-20081008.v1.aarddict.torrent - you need to download the file and open it with a BitTorrent client (pick one from the list at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_client). English Wikipedia October 2008 dump in aard format is ~ 5.8G.

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Is there a howto for making my own aarddict using Linux?

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Hm, this looks nearly identical to sdictviewer, which is what I've been using up to now. Is aarddict the successor to sdictviewer, or are the two otherwise related somehow?

Re: [Announce] Aard Dictionary released
 

Yes, it is. See http://aarddict.org/sdictissues.html.