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[Rick Moen]

Quoting Ruben Safir (ruben at mrbrklyn.com):

> On 02/10/2011 08:26 PM, Rick Moen wrote:
> > dict tautology
> 
> 
> Interesting.  dict isn't a command on opensuse.  More to the point, it
> doesn't show up in the internal packaging configuration system

According to this thread, OpenSUSE has an implementation via KDE/Konqueror
rather than a shell command, accessible using Alt-F2 and entering
'dict:<word>'.  The thread exists because the feature broke in 2008
and then got fixed.

http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/SuSE/2008-09/msg00767.html

Anyway, searching for 'dict' in a search engine also found a
Web-mediated implementation of 'dict' in a fairly obvious place:

http://www.dict.org/

Yr. welcome.

Personally, I like having /usr/bin/dict, and would try to fix that
omission directly, if I were in your shoes.  This rpmfind.net page 
suggests that it can't be hard, as /usr/share/dict exists:
http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=%2Fusr%2Fshare%2Fdict%2Fwords

Ah, I note:
http://www.novell.com/products/linuxpackages/opensuse/dictd.html

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