Greg Wooledge <g...@wooledge.org> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 19:48:47 +0000, Chris Green wrote: > > Charles Curley <charlescur...@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 ยท
