Dict GCIDE

Nix package for GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English for dictd et al.

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• ⬆️ Top of Document
• 🏗️ Requirements
• 🧰 Usage
• 📈 Contributing
  • 🔱 Forking
  • 💱 Sponsor
• 📇 Attribution
• ⚖️ Licensing

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Requirements

Install the NixOS and/or Nix package manager via official instructions;

https://nixos.org/nixos/manual/

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Usage

This repository may be installed, and managed, via Nix Flake

flake.nix (example)

{
  inputs = {
    nixpkgs.url = "github:NixOs/nixpkgs-24.05";

    dict-gcide.url = "github:nix-utilities/dict-gcide-main";
  };
  outputs = { self, nixpkgs, dict-gcide }@attrs: {
    nixosConfigurations."your-host-name" = nixpkgs.lib.nixosSystem {
      system = "x86_64-linux";
      specialArgs = attrs;
      modules = [ ./configuration.nix ];
    };
  };
}

configuration.nix (snipet)

{ config, pkgs, nixpkgs, dict-gcide, ... }:

{
  ## ... other configurations redacted...

  ## Add `dict-gcide` to `services.dictd.DBs` list
  services.dictd = {
    enable = true;
    DBs = [
      (pkgs.callPackage  dict-gcide { inherit pkgs; })
    ];
  };
}

Then rebuild as usual;

sudo nixos-rebuild switch --flake '.#'

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Contributing

Options for contributing to dict-gcide and nix-utilities

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Forking

Start making a Fork of this repository to an account that you have write permissions for.

• Add remote for fork URL. The URL syntax is [email protected]:<NAME>/<REPO>.git...

cd ~/git/hub/nix-utilities/dict-gcide

git remote add fork [email protected]:<NAME>/dict-gcide.git

• Commit your changes and push to your fork, eg. to fix an issue...

cd ~/git/hub/nix-utilities/dict-gcide


git commit -F- <<'EOF'
:bug: Fixes #42 Issue


**Edits**


- `<SCRIPT-NAME>` script, fixes some bug reported in issue
EOF


git push fork main

Note, the -u option may be used to set fork as the default remote, eg. git push -u fork main however, this will also default the fork remote for pulling from too! Meaning that pulling updates from origin must be done explicitly, eg. git pull origin main

• Then on GitHub submit a Pull Request through the Web-UI, the URL syntax is https://github.com/<NAME>/<REPO>/pull/new/<BRANCH>

Note; to decrease the chances of your Pull Request needing modifications before being accepted, please check the dot-github repository for detailed contributing guidelines.

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Sponsor

Thanks for even considering it!

Via Liberapay you may on a repeating basis.

Regardless of if you're able to financially support projects such as dict-gcide that nix-utilities maintains, please consider sharing projects that are useful with others, because one of the goals of maintaining Open Source repositories is to provide value to the community.

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Attribution

• AUR -- dict-gcide
• GNU -- GCIDE
• GitHub -- NixOs/nixpkgs -- Issue 248974 -- Package request: dict-gcide
• GitHub -- github-utilities/make-readme
• Nix Book -- Simple C program
• NixOS Manual -- Quick Start to Adding a Package
• NixOS Wiki -- Nixpkgs/Create and debug packages

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License

Nix package for GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English for dictd et al.
Copyright (C) 2025 S0AndS0

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later
version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

For further details review full length version of GPL-3.0 License.