Easy to follow dictionary install guide?

[symgryph]

I did have quite a time getting a dictionary installed. I would be willing to help with a nice 'how to' document that describes this in detail. Any interest before I write it?

Thomas

[PedroTheIntern]

I'm definitely interested in some steps.

[austinbutler]

Maybe this helps: https://github.com/baskerville/plato/pull/199

[rrrnld]

I feel like I'm also missing something crucial.

I took the dictDBs.wordnet package from nixpkgs from here and built it with nix build --no-link --print-out-paths nixpkgs#dictdDBs.wordnet. In the built package I found a wn.dict and a wn.index. I copied both files to /run/media/me/KOBOReader/.adds/plato/dictionaries. Still, the dictionary application, either when opened directly or when opened by highlighting a word and selecting "define" tells me that no dictionary can be found. I tried creating a subfolder in the dictionaries folder, but had the same issue. I tried creating the dictionaries folder in /run/media/me/KOBOReader/dictionaries but had the same issue. The bar at the bottom always only lets me select "All".

What am I doing wrong?

EDIT Managed to get them installed by creating the folder /run/media/me/KOBOReader/.adds/plato/dictionaries/wordnet and putting both the *.index and *.dict file there, and then rebooting. /run/media/me/KOBOReader is the folder where my e-book reader is mounted.

[pearofducks]

• Go here and grab the StarDict version of the language you want
• Extract the archive, so you'll have a dict-en-en (f.ex) folder
  • Within this folder, copy the dict-data.idx to dict-data.index (I haven't confirmed which file Plato cares about so I've just ensured both were there)
• Move this folder into the .adds/dictionaries folder on your Kobo
• Eject and boot/reboot Plato - it will take at least 30 seconds to boot while it converts the dictionary to a useable format - but it will cache the result so later boots don't take this long.