How To Install stardict on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install stardict
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is stardict
stardict is:
StarDict is a cross-platform international dictionary lookup program.
Main features:
- Glob-style pattern matching search
- Fuzzy search
- Working from system tray
- Scanning mouse selection and showing pop-up windows with translation of selected words
- Pronouncing of the translated words
- Plugins support
- ..and more
This package contains different size stardict.png icons files.
There are three methods to install stardict
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install stardict Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install stardict
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install stardict
Install stardict Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install stardict
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install stardict
Install stardict Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install stardict
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install stardict
How To Uninstall stardict on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the stardict
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove stardict
Uninstall stardict And Its Dependencies
To uninstall stardict
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove stardict
Remove stardict Configurations and Data
To remove stardict
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge stardict
Remove stardict configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove stardict
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge stardict
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install stardict
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.