To use these Emacs Lisp, startup code is needed. Consider to use ${PREFIX}/lib/dserver/setup-diclookup.sh (Also note deinstallation is deinstall-diclookup.sh) Also (or to begin with), Network Dictionary Transfer Protocol server is mandatory. You can use either: dserver: ports/japanese/dserver, ja-dserver-2.2.2 ndtpd: Will be soon come to ports collection.