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i did everything but i don t see the dictionary . .how s it possible??

Can someone just post the link where we can get bunzip2 if it is not installed already (as in my case).
It is not rocket sience, but missing elements makes it frustrating.

bzip2 -d == bunzip
/usr/bin/bzip2 comes from package bzip2 from repository "Nokia Applications"

Nokia Applications repository is the first one in my catalog list, but there is no bzip or anything like it to download.

Let me see if I can write like you people..maybe someone would understand:
//user/ CAN SOMEONE //rooth
.cd POST THE EXACT LOCATION AND COMMANDS //mkdir..blabla
cd .. TO INSTALL THIS FREAKING BZIP APPLICATION -v -u lsdd foo
++==lulu ..// IT IS NOT ALREADY ON N900 ..mkdir qass
-z -r //..hhh +r +r OR PUT THE DAMN THING AS PART OF THE MISERABLE QStar SO PEOPLE CAN LOAD THE CRAP //mkdir -d

@asasan
1) Start X Terminal program
2) give command: sudo gainroot
3) give command: apt-get install bzip2
4) give command: apt-get install mstardict
5) give command: exit
6) give command: cd
7) give command: mkdir .stardict
8) give command: mkdir -p /home/user/MyDocs/mstardict
9) give command: cd .stardict
10) give command: ln -s ../MyDocs/mstardict dic
11) give command: cd /home/user/MyDocs/mstardict

12) Now you have to know in what place you have downloaded the *.tar.bz2 dictionary files. Let's call that directory FOOBAR
13) give command: mv FOOBAR/*.tar.bz2 .

13.1) Or if you haven't downloaded any dictionaries yet, you can do it in the terminal also.
Let's say you want en-fr dictionary. You have gone to http://xdxf.revdanica.com/down2/inde...info_limit=256
...and found there the link to the last of the files.

13.2) give command: wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/xdx...-2.4.2.tar.bz2

14) give command: bzip2 -d *.tar.bz2
15) give command: ls
16) Now for each of the *.tar files do 17
17) give command: tar xf somedictionaryfile.tar

18) In the end, after you have extracted all the files from TAR-archives, you can remove the tar-files by giving command: rm *.tar
19) give command: exit
20) Both QstarDict and mstardict should now find your dictionaries.

If any of the above steps fails, reply here with the whole error message what it gives. BE carefull to get all spaces and dots (.) right in above commands.

BTW, I agree with you, it SHOULD be alot easier if these kind of applications ever get promoted to normal repositories and not just -testing, -devel ones.

A TIP:
When in Terminal, you can make the program guess what do you mean by hitting TAB-button (it is a virtual button on the screen)

Lets say you want to give command:
tar xf stardict-comn_sdict_axm05_English_French-2.4.2.tar.bz2

You can just type: tar xf star
...and then hit TAB-button. If there is only one filename starting with "star", it will complete the whole string. If there is many, it won't give anything. But now if you hit TAB twice, it will give a list of filenames starting with "star". Add just few letters to make the difference, and hit TAB again so now it can complete because there is no contradictions in the hint.

Easy also to surf inside the file hierarchy, just give hints and TAB once or if nothing happens TAB twice. Try with ls and cd commands.

ok let's try again:

Fact 1: NO BZIP ON THE PHONE
Fact 2: CAN'T FIND BZIP
Fact 3: WITHOUT BZIP == NO COMMAND 14
Fact 4: FOOBAR BUNZIP mkdir while you're at it.
Fact 5: FIRST 13 STEPS/COMMANDS WERE DONE IN DECEMBER
Fact 6: PC TRANSFER HAS OWNERSHIP ISSUES so DO ON N900
Fact 7: CAN'T UNZIP ON N900
Fact 8: bzip2 -d == bunzip
Fact 9: bzip -d == WHAT BZIP? 2? NO BUNZIP
10: GOT BZIP?

bzip2, not "bzip"

LOL

this is fantastic!

I now had some progress in my attempt to get the dictionaries work.

As it was said in the original instructions (2nd message in this thread), you need to go to Plugins tab in QStarDict Settings and add the folder that contains the dictionaries in the list there. What was not told is, which folder you must actually give there.
It appears that the correct folder you must give in the settins is the folder that contains the dic folder.

For example, I have stored the files of fin-eng dictionary in folder
~/MyDocs/stardict/dic/stardict-fin_eng-2.4.2/

To make this dictionary visible in QStarDict, add the following folder in the plugin settings:
N900/stardict

In the list of folders in Plugins tab, this is seen as
/home/user/MyDocs/stardict

After adding that folder in the list, a dictionary is visible in Dictionaries tab.

But more problems still exit. It seems that only some of the dictionaries are accepted by QStarDict. I have downloaded 3 dictionaries:
- stardict-vera-2.4.2
- stardict-eng_fin-2.4.2
- stardict-fin_eng-2-4-2
Only the last one is recognized by QStarDict.

When I look at the contents of the directories, the difference is that the last one contains a file fin_eng.idx.oft, while others do not contain any .oft file. (But if I understand it correctly, QStarDict should create this file.)

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Pauli

Ugh. After trying for like an hour to follow the instructions in this thread, I finally installed Mstardict... and it works great. Blech. Dont waste your time with Qstardict for now.