Compile, install, and configure the latest development version of GoldenDict in Ubuntu 14.04

Compile, install, and configure the latest development version of GoldenDict in Ubuntu 14.04

1. Background

GoldenDict is an excellent cross-platform electronic dictionary software that supports various dictionaries such as StarDict and Babylon. Its PC version is based on Qt and is completely free, open-source, and has no advertisement. The Android version of GoldenDict is another completely new implementation system. It uses the paid version to advertise and the free version to display the advertisement. We will not discuss it in detail here.

The address of GoldenDict on GitHub is https://github.com/goldendict/goldendict. at present (), there are already 1872 commit, 36-bit contributor, and 184 Fork, and development is still very active.

However, the problem is that the release and maintenance of the software is not perfect. Download link GodenDict 1.0.1 on the official website http://goldendict.org/was released in 2010, from now on there are 1337 commit.

If you are a Windows user and want to quickly install the latest development version of GoldenDict, you can open this link: https://github.com/goldendict/goldendict/wiki/early-access-builds-for-windows. This Wiki Page is continuously updated, saving you the trouble of manual compilation.

Linux users are not so lucky. Although there is also a page. The Ubuntu software warehouse is not much better. The above software package has also stopped updating since 2013, and there are no active PPA maintainers.

Therefore, in Linux, if you experience the latest GoldenDict, manual compilation is the only option.

2. Download, compile, and install

Next, let's take a look at how to install the GodenDict development edition in Ubuntu. The following description applies to Ubuntu 14.04. If you use different releases, you may need to make some necessary adjustments.

First install the necessary software package:

123	sudo apt-get install git g++ libqt4-devsudo apt-get install libvorbis-dev libhunspell-dev libao-dev libavutil-dev libavformat-devsudo apt-get install libxtst-dev libeb16-dev zlib1g-dev libbz2-dev liblzo2-dev libtiff5-dev

Then download the latest source code:

12	cd ~git clone https://github.com/goldendict/goldendict.git

Go to the godendict directory and start compiling:

123	cd goldendictqmakemake

Finally, install the compiled binary file:

1	sudo make install

After that, the master program of GoldenDict is located in the/usr/local/bin directory and can be manually added to the desktop.

3. simple configuration and User Guide

If you have never used GoldenDict before, you can take a look at this section.

3.1 prepare dictionary files

GodenDict requires a plug-in to run the dictionary. First, put the dictionary you need into any directory:

3.2 add dictionary files

Open the Edit/Dictionaries menu of GodenDict, add the directory you just added, check Recursive, and click Rescan now.

After completion, you can see the newly added dictionary on the Dictionaries page:

Here, you can drag and drop to change the display sequence of the dictionary.

3.3 set your favorite theme styles

Open the Edit/Preferences menu of GodenDict, and switch the Display style to your preferred style. For example, the Lingvo topic is displayed:

3.4 configure Wikipedia

By default, the integrated English Wikipedia in GodenDict will prompt every query:

1	Query error: XML parse error: unexpected end of file at 1,1

This is caused by the failure of the HTTP protocol. The solution is simple: Open the Edit/Dictionaries menu, click Wikipedia, and then change the Address of English Wikipedia to https://en.wikipedia.org/w:

Now, GoldenDict can display the content of Wikipedia normally:

3.5 Add a phonetic alphabet font

I often put a Kingsoft Concise English-Chinese dictionary at the top of the query results to display the phonetic symbols. This dictionary uses a font called Kingsoft Phonetic Plain to display the Phonetic alphabet. Because the font is not installed yet, the above phonetic symbols are incorrectly displayed. However, if you copy the fonts in Windows to Linux, you will find all the boxes, which are caused by the differences between ttf file encoding in Windows and Linux. To display the phonetic symbols normally in Linux, You need to encode the original ttf file. Here is a dedicated ttf file prepared by a netizen:

Save the image to your local, and then change the extension to. rar unzip, you can get the file kingsoft-phonetic-unicode.ttf. Copy the file to the/usr/share/fonts/truetype directory, change the permission to 644, and then log on again to make the font take effect.

If the image is invalid, you can download the font file from here:

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The specific download directory is compiled, installed, and configured for the latest development version of GoldenDict/Under/June 13,/June 23,/Ubuntu 14.04/

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The final result is shown in:

4. compilation problems

Theoretically, as long as you follow the prompts above, the following problems will not occur. If this occurs, the corresponding development file is basically missing. Some situations are listed here, just to help people who encounter problems locate the problem through the search engine.

A) if the following prompt is displayed during compilation:

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hotkeywrapper.hh:11:35: fatal error: X11/extensions/record.h: No such file or directory #include <X11/extensions/record.h>                                   ^compilation terminated.make: *** [build/main.o] Error 1

Make sure that this package has been installed: libxtst-dev

B) if the following prompt is displayed during compilation:

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epwing_book.hh:21:19: fatal error: eb/eb.h: No such file or directory #include <eb/eb.h>                   ^compilation terminated.make: *** [build/mainwindow.o] Error 1

Make sure that this package is installed with: libeb16-dev

C) if the following prompt is displayed during compilation:

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bgl_babylon.hh:25:18: fatal error: zlib.h: No such file or directory #include <zlib.h>                  ^compilation terminated.make: *** [build/bgl_babylon.o] Error 1

Make sure that this package is installed with: zlib1g-dev

D) if the following prompt is displayed during compilation:

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decompress.cc:3:19: fatal error: bzlib.h: No such file or directory #include "bzlib.h"                   ^compilation terminated.make: *** [build/decompress.o] Error 1

Make sure that this package is installed with: libbz2-dev

E) if the following prompt is displayed during compilation:

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mdictparser.cc:26:23: fatal error: lzo/lzo1x.h: No such file or directory #include <.zo/lzo1x.h>                       ^compilation terminated.make: *** [build/mdictparser.o] Error 1

Make sure that this package is installed with: liblzo2-dev

F) if the following prompt is displayed during compilation:

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tiff.cc:12:18: fatal error: tiff.h: No such file or directory #include "tiff.h"                  ^compilation terminated.make: *** [build/tiff.o] Error 1

Make sure that this package is installed with: libtiff5-dev