Source: translate Section: text Priority: optional Maintainer: Anibal Monsalve Salazar Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7) Standards-Version: 3.8.4 Package: translate Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends}, trans-de-en (>= 1.4-1) Suggests: xtranslate Description: translates words from English into German or viceversa It looks up a word in a file with language-to-language translations (field separator should be \" :: \") and maintains local dictionaries. So it should be easy to add more languages, if you have such a dictionary.