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Re: moby-thesaurus.dict



On Sunday 04 July 2004 08:36 am, Brian Astill wrote:

> refers to mthes.txt and roger13a.txt, neither of which are on my
> system.  The dict man page gives syntax, but not original setup.

Hrm.  I just

	aptitude install dictd dict-wn dict-moby-thesaurus

pointed KDict at it, and away I went.

I installed dict, tried

	dict -d moby-thesaurus quit

and that worked too.

I'm running Sid, and I last updated a couple days ago, FWIW.

Anyway, reading through this revealed what I think are the magic words you 
need.  Try running:

# Older dictionary database packages did not automatically invoke
# /usr/sbin/dictdconfig upon installation and removal, so you may
# need to do so manually (after which, you should restart dictd).

That's what did the trick for me last time, I think.  IIRC it picks up any 
new .dict.gz and .index files and adds them automagically to 
the /var/lib/dictd/db.list file, which shouldn't be hand-edited.

If those words weren't magic enough, I'll post my complete config for this 
thing.
	
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