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Re: dictionary packages for Gnome desktop



On 09/20/2006, Mike McCarty wrote:

> $ look barnac
> $ look twid

Mike:

How about that!  Well, I'm running sarge.

~$ look barnac
barnacle
barnacle's
barnacles
~$ look twid
twiddle
twiddled
twiddles
twiddling

Looking to why I get different results, perhaps this can help you debug:

~$ ls -l /usr/share/dict
total 892K
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 888K 2004-02-16 02:55 american-english
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   30 2006-05-26 11:17 words ->
/etc/dictionaries-common/words
~$ ls -l /etc/dictionaries-common/words
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 32 2006-05-26 11:30
/etc/dictionaries-common/words -> /usr/share/dict/american-english
~$ dpkg -S /usr/share/dict/american-english
wamerican: /usr/share/dict/american-english
~$ apt-cache show wamerican
Package: wamerican
Priority: standard
Section: text
Installed-Size: 930
Maintainer: David Coe <davidc@debian.org>
Architecture: all
Source: scowl
Version: 5-4
Provides: wordlist
Depends: debconf, dictionaries-common (>= 0.20), debconf (>= 0.5) |
debconf-2.0
Conflicts: wenglish (<< 5)
Filename: pool/main/s/scowl/wamerican_5-4_all.deb
Size: 259438
MD5sum: 1f01473c7ec026ad4a77b4e49933aaf8
SHA1: f57686cd270a26566f8c6757bfab3c1c22e77be6
SHA256: 7685171e63047961bb0755de3d0aa0fdf047940d1de335401a8c8474163b549b
Description: American English dictionary words for /usr/share/dict
 This package provides the file /usr/share/dict/american-english
 containing a list of English words with American spellings.
 This list can be used by spelling checkers, and by programs such
 as look(1).
 .
 There are also -small and -large versions of this wordlist,
 and there are wbritish* and wcanadian* packages as well.

I can't remember installing wamerican manually... I would never have
done it just for "look."

Regards,
Ralph



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