Chapter 38. Lay Down the Law with Edict
Actually, the Perl program called edict doesn’t lay down the law, it’s simply either a dictionary or a thesaurus, your choice. You’ll need to have Perl installed in order to use edict, which bills itself as “Your personal command line dictionary.”
Installing Edict Is a Snap
Download the “Latest Release” from the URL below.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/edictionary/ |
The latest release was 1.2 as of this writing. After the download, you’ll end up with a file called edict-1.2.tar.gz in your download directory. Enter that directory, and melt the tarball by entering:
linux~>tar xzf edict-1.2.tar.gz |
Tar will create a new subdirectory called edict to put the melted contents. Enter that directory and enter (with root ...
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