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The dict Portfile 54295 2009-07-24 18:22:08Z toby macports.org $

PortSystem 1.0
Name: dict
Version: 1.9.7
Revision: 1
Category: textproc spelling
Maintainers: landonf
Description: Dictionary Server Protocol (RFC2229) client
Long Description: The Dictionary Server Protocol (DICT) is a TCP transaction based query/response protocol that allows a client to access dictionary definitions from a set of natural language dictionary databases. dict(1) is a client which can access DICT servers from the command line.
Homepage: http://www.dict.org/
Platform: darwin freebsd

Master Sites: ftp://ftp.dict.org/pub/dict/
distname ${name}d-${version}
Checksums: md5 baa8f18dd0373e7053658be99d40d5db
depends_build lib:ltdl.3:libtool

Patch Files: patch-configure

configure.args --without-local-zlib --with-etcdir=${prefix}/etc --mandir=${prefix}/share/man
build.type gnu
build.target dict
destroot.target install.dict

platform darwin {
patchfiles-append patch-libmaa-config.guess patch-libmaa-config.sub patch-libmaa_parse.c patch-regex-ranlib
}

platform freebsd {
patchfiles-append freebsd-T_USER.diff
}

post-patch {
reinplace s|/etc/|${prefix}/etc/|g "${workpath}/${distname}/dict.1"
}

If you haven't already installed Darwin Ports, you can find easy instructions for doing so at the main Darwin Ports page.
Once Darwin Ports has been installed, in a terminal window and while online, type the following and hit return:

%  cd /opt/local/bin/portslocation/dports/dict
%  sudo port install dict  
Password: 

You will then be prompted for your root password, which you should enter. You may have to wait for a few minutes while the software is retrieved from the network and installed for you. Y ou should see something that looks similar to:

--->  Fetching dict
--->  Verifying checksum for dict
--->  Extracting dict
--->  Configuring dict
--->  Building dict with target all

--->  Staging dict into destroot

--->  Installing dict

- Make sure that you do not close the terminal window while Darwin Ports is working. Once the software has been installed, you can find further information about using dict with these commands:

%  man dict
%  apropos dict
%  which dict
%  locate dict

 Where to find more information: