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 Installation (Windows)

1. Download from here the installation program Dixit-9.11.4-setup.exe (23 MB);
2. Run the installation program. This will install Dixit and the database containing over 373 000 definitions.
3. To update the definitions database, press the update button . If the computer is connected to the Internet, the new definitions will be downloaded from the dexonline.ro server.

• XCOPY Dixit deployment is also possible. Download one of the compressed files dixit-9.11.4-win32.7z (22 MB) or dixit-9.11.4-win32.zip (29 MB) and unzip it using 7-Zip or Winzip. Copy the Dixit folder into the destination folder. Please note that for Windows Vista and Windows 7 the database cannot be copied into C:/Program Files/Dixit folder because the operating system does not allow writing into it at this location.
• All Windows XP/Vista files available for download contain the compressed executable, database, and source code.

 Installation (Linux)

Minimum requirements: Qt 4.2.0 or Qt 3.3.0 or any later versions should be already installed on your computer. All Qt library versions can be found here. Qt library installation details differ from a platform to another. However, compiling Dixit is always similar to what is described below.

1. Find Qt version:
   

   qmake -v

2. Download the source code for Qt 4.2+ dixit-9.11.4.tgz or for Qt 3.3+ dixit-9.11.3.tgz.
3. Unpack:
   

   Qt4: tar xvzf dixit-9.11.4.tgz
   Qt3: tar xvzf dixit-9.11.3.tgz

4. Compile:

   cd dixit
   qmake
   make
   

5. Run the program:

   ./dixit

   or specifying the database file on the command line:

   dixit /home/me/dixit/dixit.qdb

6. If it does not exist, the dixit.qdb file containing the database is created in the current folder when the program is run for the first time, after which the database (approx. 30 MB) is automatically downloaded from Dexonline.ro. However, if the database does exist, updating does not take place.
7. To avoid Dixit downloading the database, the user can download dixit.qdb.tar.bz2 (21 MB), unzip it, and store it in the Dixit directory. This manual download is faster than waiting for Dixit update process.
8. To finalize the install, copy the dixit executable into a destination that is in PATH, and move the database into a location where any user can write it. Run dixit specifying the database on the command line. For example:
   

   cp dixit /usr/local/bin/
   mkdir /var/lib/dixit
   mv dixit.qdb /var/lib/dixit/
   chmod 0666 /var/lib/dixit/dixit.qdb
   
   dixit /var/lib/dixit/dixit.qdb

 Using Dixit

To search a word, enter it in the search box and press Enter. You can search the definitions of a set of words by using the special characters "?" (which matches any letter) and "*" (which matches any sequence of letters, including the empty sequence). For example, the search "ab?c" will return the definitions of ABAC, MONOSILABIC, TRABUC etc.

You can find some basic info on the Romanian language on this Wikipedia page.