Charles Curley <charlescur...@charlescurley.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Jan 2025 16:28:51 +0000
> Chris Green <c...@isbd.net> wrote:
>
> > The British English dictionary is missing from
> > /usr/share/dict, all I have is usr/share/dict/american-english.
>
> I'm no expert here, but that suggests that you should have at least one
> of several /usr/share/dict/british-english* files. Are any of the
> following packages (column 1) installed?
>
> charles@hawk:~$ apt-file search /usr/share/dict/british-english
> wbritish: /usr/share/dict/british-english
> wbritish-huge: /usr/share/dict/british-english-huge
> wbritish-insane: /usr/share/dict/british-english-insane
> wbritish-large: /usr/share/dict/british-english-large
> wbritish-small: /usr/share/dict/british-english-small
> charles@hawk:~$
>
Yes, I do have one of them installed:-
chris@q957$ dpkg -l | grep british
ii ibritish 3.4.05-1 all British
English dictionary for ispell (standard version)
chris@q957$
But reinstalling doesn't get the file back:-
root@t470# apt reinstall ibritish
Reading package lists... 0%
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not
upgraded.
Need to get 194 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main amd64 ibritish all
3.4.05-1 [194 kB]
Fetched 194 kB in 0s (2,206 kB/s)
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 180073 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../ibritish_3.4.05-1_all.deb ...
Unpacking ibritish (3.4.05-1) over (3.4.05-1) ...
Setting up ibritish (3.4.05-1) ...
Processing triggers for dictionaries-common (1.29.5) ...
ispell-autobuildhash: Processing 'british' dict.
root@t470# cd /usr/share/dict
root@t470# ls -l
total 1452
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 199 Mar 14 2023 README.select-wordlist
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 985084 Jan 20 2022 american-english
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 492822 Jan 31 2023 cracklib-small
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 Oct 25 15:02 words ->
/etc/dictionaries-common/words
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Jan 20 2022
words.pre-dictionaries-common -> american-english
I think something really is broken somewhere.
--
Chris Green
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