So even if other dictionaries are installed, after removing this single dictionary, dictd gets stopped and turned off (removed from the startup services list). That makes it not possible to use the remaining dictionaries. --- $ rpm -qa \'dict*\' dict-deu-eng-0.2-alt1 dict-1.8.0-alt1 dictd-1.8.0-alt1 dict-jargon-4.3.1-alt1 dict-engcom-0.4-alt1 dict-web1913-1.4_0.47pd-ipl4 dict-tools-1.8.0-alt1 dict-mueller7-utf8-1.2-alt2 dict-eng-deu-0.2-alt1 $ dict otherwise # you get the answer from localhost, dictd is running $ apt-get remove dict-eng-deu Reading Package Lists... Done Collecting File Provides... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Starting Starting 2 Done The following packages will be REMOVED: dict-eng-deu 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 removed and 191 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 3193kB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Executing RPM (/bin/rpm -e --fancypercent --nodeps)... Stopping dictd daemon: [ OK ] $ chkconfig --list dictd # it used to be turned on dictd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off $ dict otherwise # you can\'t connect to localhost\'s server, you get the answer from dict.org (configured in /etc/dict.conf). --- preuninstall scriptlet (through /bin/sh): /usr/sbin/dictdconfig -w if [ $1 = 0 ]; then /sbin/chkconfig --del dictd ||: /sbin/service dictd condstop ||: fi
dict-eng-deu-0.2-alt1
fixed in dict-eng-deu-0.2-alt2
