Finnish dictionary on Xubuntu

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Building makedict

Download makedict from http://sourceforge.net/projects/xdxf/files/Converter_%20many%20to%20many/makedict-0.4.1-beta1-Source.tar.gz/download

Compile and install:

sudo apt-get install -y cmake libglib2.0-dev libexpat1-dev
cd /tmp
tar xvf ~/Downloads/makedict-0.4.1-beta1-Source.tar.gz
cd makedict-0.4.1-beta1-Source/
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make
sudo make install

Converting the dictionary

Download the dictionary from http://ignum.dl.sourceforge.net/project/xdxf/dicts-XDXF/sdict05/comn_sdict05_fin_eng.tar.bz2

Do the conversion:

cd /tmp
tar xvf ~/Downloads/comn_sdict05_eng_fin.tar.bz2
cd eng_fin
mkdir out
makedict -i xdxf -o dictd -d out dict.xdxf

to be continued...

Other dictionary databases found on-line

• an English-Finnish dictionary for the Symbian MDictionary (see format description)
• the JWiktionaryTranslationParser project includes an English-Finnish dictionary in StarDict format
• the Universal Dictionary Download page from the Free Dictionaries Project offers a huge number of dictionary databases

Other converters found on-line

• is the stardict extracting code Python script written for parsing StarDict dictionaries?