On Mon 31 Jan 2022 at 01:31:36 (-0500), Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote:
> On 2022-01-30 20:28, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 12:52:36AM +0000, Russell L. Harris wrote:
> >> On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 07:32:26PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> >>> On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 11:53:26PM +0000, Russell L. Harris wrote:
> >>>> On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 08:41:07AM +1100, Charlie wrote:
> >>>>> On Sun, 30 Jan 2022 19:18:42 +0000
> >>>>> "Russell L. Harris" <russ...@rlharris.org> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> Synaptic no longer shows the several "gazeteer" entries, and I do not
> >>>>>> find "moby thesaurus".
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Don't know, dict-moby-thesaurus is here
> >>>>
> >>>> My synaptic (0.90.2) cannot find it. Debian 11.2.
> >
> > Well... according to packages.debian.org, dict-moby-thesaurus only exists
> > in oldstable and oldoldstable. So, Debian 9 and 10.
> >
> > <https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/dict-moby-thesaurus> shows the dates
> > it was removed from unstable and from testing.
> >
> > <https://tracker.debian.org/news/1161371/removed-10-64-from-unstable/>
> > shows that it was removed because:
> >
> > RoQA; dead upstream (10+ years); python2-only; no extrenal deps; extremely
> > low popcon
>
> You could always try a manual compile
I'm not sure what needs compilation, but let me admit that I'm not
familiar with dictds and how they're used.
$ dpkg -L dict-moby-thesaurus
/.
/usr
/usr/share
/usr/share/dictd
/usr/share/dictd/moby-thesaurus.dict.dz
/usr/share/dictd/moby-thesaurus.index
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/dict-moby-thesaurus
/usr/share/doc/dict-moby-thesaurus/aaREADME.txt.gz
/usr/share/doc/dict-moby-thesaurus/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/dict-moby-thesaurus/copyright
$
moby-thesaurus.dict.dz is a compressed text file that you can gunzip
if only you change .dz to .gz. Similarly:
$ dpkg -L dict-gazetteer2k-counties
/.
/usr
/usr/share
/usr/share/dictd
/usr/share/dictd/gazetteer2k-counties.dict.dz
/usr/share/dictd/gazetteer2k-counties.index
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/dict-gazetteer2k-counties
/usr/share/doc/dict-gazetteer2k-counties/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/dict-gazetteer2k-counties/copyright
$
… gazetteer2k-counties.dict.dz is likewise, and the indexes
are all text anyway.
$ cp -ip /usr/share/dictd/gazetteer2k-counties.dict.dz
/tmp/gazetteer2k-counties.dict.dz.gz
$ gunzip /tmp/gazetteer2k-counties.dict.dz.gz
$ head -n 20 /tmp/gazetteer2k-counties.dict.dz
00-database-url
http://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/places2k.html
00-database-short
U.S. Gazetteer Counties (2000)
00-database-info
The original data is available from:
http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/tiger/tmz/gazetteer/county2k.txt
http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/tiger/tms/gazetteer/zips.txt
The original U.S. Gazetteer Place and Zipcode Files
are provided by the U.S. Census Bureau and are in
the Public Domain.
Autauga -- U.S. County in Alabama
Population (2000): 43671
Housing Units (2000): 17662
Land area (2000): 595.968032 sq. miles (1543.550050 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 8.478429 sq. miles (21.959029 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 604.446461 sq. miles (1565.509079 sq. km)
Located within: Alabama (AL), FIPS 01
$
BTW python 2.7 is included in bullseye, isn't it? The restriction
AIUI is that packages can only depend on it for building, not running.
(Not that I know where python comes into all of this.)
Cheers,
David.
