How To Install stardict-tools on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install stardict-tools
on Debian 12.
What is stardict-tools
stardict-tools 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 the dictionary conversion tools which can convert dictionaries of DICT, wquick, mova and pydict to stardict format.
There are three methods to install stardict-tools
on Debian 12. 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-tools 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-tools
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install stardict-tools
Install stardict-tools Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install stardict-tools
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install stardict-tools
Install stardict-tools 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install stardict-tools
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install stardict-tools
How To Uninstall stardict-tools on Debian 12
To uninstall only the stardict-tools
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove stardict-tools
Uninstall stardict-tools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall stardict-tools
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove stardict-tools
Remove stardict-tools Configurations and Data
To remove stardict-tools
configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge stardict-tools
Remove stardict-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove stardict-tools
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge stardict-tools
Dependencies
stardict-tools have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install stardict-tools
package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.