How to install Goldendict?

keos

Hi,

Goldendict is not at the software center ...
Sorry if I'm making to many questions.

Thanks

EbonJaeger

It's available as a flatpak, it looks like: https://flathub.org/apps/search?q=goldendict

Staudey

Seems like it was removed from the Solus repository because it "uses qtwebkit", so you might want to look for an alternative, as I guess it's only a matter of time until the flatpak runtime won't support it anymore either

https://github.com/getsolus/packages/commit/3e922216a663e06d000d60ec665f4e147dd4009e
https://blogs.gnome.org/mcatanzaro/2022/11/04/stop-using-qtwebkit/

Staudey

Oh, actually it seems there is at least some effort to port to QtWebEngine

https://github.com/goldendict/goldendict/pull/1542
https://github.com/vedgy/goldendict

keos

I found this, but not idea how to compile there is not a README...

https://github.com/goldendict/goldendict/releases/tag/1.5.0

but not idea how to compile there is not a README...

brent

keos

flatpak search goldendict
Name                Description                             Application ID                          Version                 Branch      Remotes
GoldenDict          Dictionary lookup program               org.goldendict.GoldenDict               1.5.0RC2 (718462c)      stable      flathub
GoldenDict-ng       Advanced dictionary lookup program      io.github.xiaoyifang.goldendict_ng      24.07.28                stable      flathub

I don't always like it either, but sometimes you have to bite the bullet and get the flatpak. I rarely have used one that did not work splendidly.

keos

The problem is that i'm not familiar with flatpak here ... after downloaded it I got this in my system (no idea what to do with):

![](https://)

alfisya

keos

If you have not enable Flathub (It will enabled by default soon) :

flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

There are two version of goldendict in Flathub:
Goldendict

flatpak install flathub org.goldendict.GoldenDict

Goldendict-ng

flatpak install flathub io.github.xiaoyifang.goldendict_ng

Or you can install either Gnome software or KDE Discover from our repository to install software (Flatpak and eopkg) graphically. As mentioned in our last sync notes, we are looking for tester. Cheers!