Dictionaries installation

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Dictionaries format

Currently the main format of dictionaries used by QStarDict is StarDict.

List of the most popular sites with dictionaries available here.

Usually dictionaries distributed in tarballs. You can install dictionary using following commands:

mkdir -p ~/.stardict/dic
tar xzvf dictionary.tar.gz -C ~/.stardict/dic

for dictionary.tar.gz and

mkdir -p ~/.stardict/dic
tar xjvf dictionary.tar.bz2 -C ~/.stardict/dic

for dictionary.tar.bz2.