Monday 11 February 2013

[New Fedora Package] Tagaini Jisho – A Japanese dictionary and study assistant

Dear fellow Japanese language students, rejoice. I've been using the app in title for a while, but I finally got around to do a proper Fedora package and push it to Fedora ;-) So installing is now super easy.

  • For Rawhide:
    su -c 'yum install tagainijisho'
  • For Fedora 17 and Fedora 18 (I decided not to support Fedora 16 as it's going to be EOLed shortly):
    su -c 'yum install tagainijisho'

Tagaini Jisho is a cool piece of software, an irreplaceable tool for anyone learning Japanese. You can use it not only as a Japanese-%{your-language} dictionary/kanji search tool, you can also use it to learn the words, and to learn the Japanese characters. Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji – all included, and with animated stroke order diagrams! More info on www.tagaini.net. Some screenshots bellow:

Update 2013/02/21: Tagaini Jisho has been tagged to stable repos for Fedora 17 onward. The issue with dictionaries mentioned in comments is also fixed in that push. Enjoy!

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

For me, app was failing to start with "Fatal: kanjidic2 plugin fatal error: no language database present!"
because tagainijisho-dic-en was not pulled (only tagainijisho-dic-tr was pulled).

Perhaps my yum langpack is not configured...

Martin said...

Looks like the English version is not optional :-/ Can you file a bug? The langpacks part will start to work when comps are updated in the repos.

La Brujita Sylvia said...

I tried to install it but I couldn't. It shows nothing when I search it with Apper.
I'm using Fedora 18

Do you know why?


Thanks very much!

Martin said...

@La Brujita Sylvia: It takes a while to actually get into repos and mirrors after it's tagged. In the meanwhile it's still in updates-testing repo ;-)

Anonymous said...

fedora 20, works fine. thanks!