To use these Emacs Lisp, startup code is needed. Consider to use ${PREFIX}/share/doc/diclookup-emacs20/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_1 and later ndtpd: ports/japanese/ndtpd, ja-ndtpd-2.3.3 and later