Update Digital Pāḷi Dictionary

A new version becomes available every full moon uposatha day.

Updating is very easy. In brief:

  1. download the latest version of DPD
  2. copy it to your GoldenDict folder, entirely replacing the old version

Updating on Windows

  1. Download the latest DPD zip file from Github.
  2. Unzip the DPD folder and copy it to your GoldenDict folder. \Documents\GoldenDict
  3. Make sure to replace all the contents of the old DPD folder.
  4. EITHER close GoldenDict completely and re-open it (make sure it's not active in your system tray)
    OR go to Edit > Dictionaries (Shortcut F3) and click rescan now and OK. OR the shortcut Ctrl-F5 may also work to re-scan.

rescan now

Updating on Mac

  1. Download the latest DPD zip file from Github.
  2. Unzip
  3. Copy the DPD folder to your /Documents/GoldenDict folder, entirely replacing the old one.
  4. Quit GoldenDict and restart it OR the shortcut Apple-F5 may also work to re-scan.
  5. You should get a message that DPD is indexing... success!

Enjoy the most up-to-date Pāḷi information!