Re: British English has disappeared
Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 19:48:47 +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> > Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> wrote:
> > > 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
>
> Please note the package names here: "wbritish".
>
> > 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)
>
> That one says "ibritish". It's a different package.
>
> > But reinstalling doesn't get the file back:-
> >
> > root@t470# apt reinstall ibritish
>
> That's because it's not a file provided by that package.
> The file list for ibritish is at
> <https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/all/ibritish/filelist>
> and if you read it, you'll see that it doesn't put any files in the
> /usr/share/dict directory.
>
> The wbritish package, on the other hand, does, as you can see by
> reading <https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/all/wbritish/filelist>.
>
> Also, *neither* of these packages has anything to do with Firefox, which
> I thought was the original complaint in this thread.
No, OP here, nothing to do with Firefox (maybe I said 'browser' but I
don't use Firefox).
I just seemed to have lost British English fairly recently having been
running Debian 12 for quite a while.
Yes, installing wbritish has brought the file back OK (I'd got there
via using 'apt-file search') but I'm not clear how I lost it. It
*might* be just that it's never been there since I moved from Ubuntu
to Debian but I thought it was there after I made the move.
Anyway I have it back now. :-)
--
Chris Green
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