The FreeDict project aims at providing free (open source) dictionary databases, to be used both by humans and machines. The official home is at https://freedict.org, where you can find documentation for dictionary usage and development.
This repository only contains dictionaries which are manually written. It is not the official FreeDict source. Please visit https://freedict.org/downloads to view all sources or https://download.freedict.org/generated for the imported/generated ones.
All dictionaries are encoded in TEI (version 5) which is a flexible XML format to encode human speech. The FreeDict project provides dictionaries but also style sheets to convert the TEI databases into human-readable formats.
At the moment, the dict format and the SLOB format are supported.
The development documentation is in our wiki at https://github.com/freedict/fd-dictionaries/wiki.
You can install precompiled dictionaries on GNU/Linux distributions like Debian (and all derived distributions as Ubuntu, Mint, etc.) and Arch Linux. Please have a look at your package manager.
If you still want to build from source and you don't want to read the wiki, here's a really quick getting started guide:
- Get https://github.com/freedict/tools, clone it to a path without spaces
and set an environment variable called
FREEDICT_TOOLSpointing there. - Change to your dictionary, try
make help. For buildingmakeshould be enough, at least if you have both tei2slob and xsltproc installed. It's also possible to disable some of the output formats, ask our friendly buildsystem for help:make help.
