Re: British English has disappeared

[Chris Green <cl@isbd.net>]

Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Jan 2025 16:28:51 +0000
> Chris Green <cl@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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