One way to install myougiden in Slackware 14 (14.2)

Installing myougiden (a command-line interface to Edict, the Japanese-English dictionary that has an online interface at wwwjdic) in Slackware is possible. This is one way (tested in Slackware 14.0 and 14.1):

  1. Get python3.4 from Slackbuilds and install that
  2. cd to your git folder (or make one)
  3. git clone https://github.com/leoboiko/myougiden.git
  4. su
  5. pip3.4 install romkan
  6. pip3.4 install termcolor
  7. cd [your git folder]/myougiden
  8. python3.4 setup.py install
  9. updatedb-myougiden -f
  10. exit and start using myougiden

(Your version of pip may be different; do ls -l /usr/bin/pip* to check.)

Lots of options, see myougiden -h. BTW I put this in ~/.bashrc:

alias m='/usr/bin/myougiden'

Typing m instead of myougiden is somewhat more convenient (so far I haven’t found a nice way to keep it open/make it interactive).

Lots of things to like, for example:

Update (2016年 10月 24日 月曜日 09:56:14 CEST)

It is possible to update the dictionary files with updatedb-myougiden -f, which is cool. It is also possible to update myougiden itself, with sudo pip install --upgrade myougiden. I did that and got a broken version (SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xc5' in file /usr/bin/myougiden on line 28, but no encoding declared;) I edited a few lines of the file myougiden, but gut stuck not knowing any python). So how to downgrade? My solution:

pip uninstall myougiden
git clone git://github.com/leoboiko/myougiden.git
cd myougiden
git log
[choose an earlier commit, I chose da1ffa2956ee0c8efc64567bd248b6ff352be600]
git checkout da1ffa2956ee0c8efc64567bd248b6ff352be600
sudo python3 setup.py install
sudo updatedb-myougiden -f

Update: Sun Aug 20 12:04:35 CEST 2017

I installed the latest version of myougiden at this date without problems on my laptop, under Slackware 14.2 (following the instructions at the top, only with pip3.6).

Update: Fri Sep 3 09:16:22 CEST 2021

I installed the latest version of myougiden at this date in Slackware Current (14.2+). I had to adjust the myougiden script, because I got the error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/myougiden", line 137, in <module>
    args.background = color.guess_background() or 'dark'
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.9/site-packages/myougiden/color.py", line 125, in guess_background
    bg = int(v.split(';')[-1])
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: 'default'

Since I still haven’t learned Python, my fix was necessarily crude. Given that I run myougiden in a terminal with a dark background I simply changed line 137 to:

args.background = 'dark'
Wednesday 24 June 2015