You can install GeoDict by simple extracting the gzipped tar archive. This approach does not use an installer, and therefore does not check for dependencies from other Linux packages. We therefore recommend to install GeoDict either from the .deb package or the .rpm package, if possible.

If you install by extracting the .tar.gz file, you have to take care of the dependencies manually:

• GeoDict requires that the installed glibc library is version 2.17 or higher. To find out which version runs on your Linux system, open a terminal and type in the command line getconf GNU_LIBC_VERSION and get (for example) glibc 2.19 as output. In this case you may install GeoDict. If the glibc version of your Linux system is 2.16 or lower, you cannot install GeoDict on this system.

• GeoDict uses 3D graphics, so it requires that X11 and OpenGL libraries are installed.
• GeoDict requires that libgomp, libgfortran, libdbus, libglib2 and libpcre2-16 are installed.
• The executebles BESTer, BESTmicro and FeelMath that are part of the GeoDict package require libstdc++ version higher than 3.4.26. This library can be found e.g. in the GeoDict installation folder in the compat_libs/ subdirectory. The library can be copied into the BESTer/, BESTmicro/ and FeelMath/ subdirectories after the GeoDict installation if it is missing on you Linux system.

To install GeoDict, open a terminal and move the file to the folder where you want to install GeoDict (we recommend installation in /opt) and extract GeoDict by typing

tar -xzvf GeoDict2025-1-1-Linux-x86_64-Release.tar.gz

tar -xzvf GeoDict2025-1-1-Linux-x86_64-Tools-Release.tar.gz

The tar command unzips the file and creates the folder geodict2025 in the working directory. This installation folder contains all GeoDict files. The GeoDict Tools package is unpacked into the geodict2025/Tools folder and contains the x264 video encoder. It is important that both GeoDict and GeoDict Tools package are unpacked in the same folder.  

Launch GeoDict from the command line by starting  

./geodict2025

from this installation folder or start it by browsing to the installation folder and clicking on the geodict2025 executable.