Package Details: wordnet-common 3.1-16

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/wordnet.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: wordnet
Description: An Electronic Lexical Database from Princeton University
Upstream URL: https://wordnet.princeton.edu/
Licenses: LicenseRef-custom
Submitter: None
Maintainer: envolution
Last Packager: envolution
Votes: 137
Popularity: 0.007120
First Submitted: 2007-01-12 20:32 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2025-07-13 20:37 (UTC)

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Musse commented on 2021-06-25 19:26 (UTC) (edited on 2021-06-25 19:27 (UTC) by Musse)

I kept getting this error when trying to compile:

binsrch.c:190:5: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Werror=format-security]

I'm not sure about how safe it is, but removing the flag seemed to fix the error.

$ sudo find -name 'Makefile' -exec sed -i -- 's/-Werror=format-security/--warn-no-format-security/g' '{}' +

Stebalien commented on 2021-04-29 16:02 (UTC)

@ShahinSorkh

It should work now but I can't be sure because I don't know what your specific issue was. In the future, please include error messages when you report build failures.

ShahinSorkh commented on 2021-04-29 06:51 (UTC)

Fails on build

pigmonkey commented on 2020-01-19 02:46 (UTC)

I installed this package today after a fresh Arch install. The two dependencies I needed to install before dict-wn could build are flex and man-db. This was my first time performing a clean Arch install since the base group was replaced by the base package last October, which I assume is the reason these dependencies were not noticed before.

https://www.archlinux.org/news/base-group-replaced-by-mandatory-base-package-manual-intervention-required/

flex is included in base-devel, but man-db is not, so this package will fail to build in the chroot provided by the extra-x86_64-build script from the devtools package.

However, despite being part of base-devel, flex is listed as a make dependency of the dictd package, which argues in favor of being more explicit here.

respiranto commented on 2020-01-19 01:57 (UTC)

base-devel is assumed to be installed when building packages. I.e., this group's members do not need to be specified in the makedepends array. One might argue against that assumption. If you figure out all the dependencies (including in base) - by using a clean build environment - I'd be willing to add them all.

pigmonkey commented on 2020-01-19 00:33 (UTC)

I agree that flex should be added as a dependency.

gzbd commented on 2020-01-18 11:50 (UTC)

I had the same error.

You need flex package. It can be installed from base-devel package group or pacman -S flex.

Stebalien commented on 2019-08-12 15:38 (UTC)

WilliamR, you can install artha from the AUR. As specified in the PKGBUILD, you'll need wordnet-common.

WilliamR commented on 2019-08-11 09:47 (UTC)

Artha has been one of my essential utilities on a deb-based system. Recently moved over to an arch-based system due to unresolved heating problems on a Dell running a distro based on Ubuntu. Artha informs that it needs Wordnet. As AUR has different versions of Wordnet, some guidance is needed as to which version or files are needed to get Artha to run. Is this possible at present or are changes needed to be made in the AUR?

Stebalien commented on 2019-04-18 17:45 (UTC)

@dkasak,

wordnet-common currently includes the database, library, and a bunch of manual pages.

It sounds like we need to move the dictionary (/usr/share/wordnet/dict) out of wordnet-common into a wordnet-dict-princeton package that provides wordnet-dict. Would that work for you?

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