An offline CLI dictionary written in go, using data from wiktionary.

# Download latest binaries
curl -LO https://github.com/Lodobo/gdict/releases/latest/download/gdict.AMD64
curl -LO https://github.com/Lodobo/gdict/releases/latest/download/install.AMD64

mkdir -p ~/.local/bin # create folder
install -m 755 gdict ~/.local/bin # install program to ~/.local/bin
./install # run the install script

$ git clone https://github.com/Lodobo/gdict
$ cd gdict

$ make install

gdict will be installed in ~/.local/bin and the sqlite database will be created in ~/.local/share/gdict

Make sure ~/.local/bin is in $PATH. Additionaly, your system may not have a default pager. You may have to add the following lines to your ~/.bashrc or ~/.profile:

export PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH" # add ~/.local/bin to path
export PAGER="less -R" # Set less as the default pager
export LESSCHARSET=utf-8 # Enable unicode

The Go compiler is required to build this program. Make sure you have go version 1.18 or newer. You can install it from Go's official website

• Tatu Ylonen's Wiktextract: A utility for extracting data from wiktionary. The lexical data used by gdict comes from dumps provided by Ylonen on kaikki.org
• rdict: Another version of this software written in rust
• BetaPictoris`s dict: another command line dictionary
• wordnet: A large lexical database of glosses and synonyms