I have a need for diction to be installed on my server, which is running CentOS 4. I can find it no problems for Fedora and Ubuntu (apt-get 'just worked'), but am having no luck under CentOS.
Which Fedora package would I need, or is there a solid source link I can use? Seems like searching only brings back "dictionary" rather than "diction".
Thanks to prompting from @JeffG, I was able to find the source tgz on gnu.org.
It would still be nice to be doing this from a package standpoint, but since it has not been updated since 2007, installing from source seems safe enough.
Steps followed:
rpm -qip diction-1.11-4.fc12.i686.rpmoutput from above command:
warning: diction-1.11-4.fc12.i686.rpm: V3 RSA/MD5 signature: NOKEY, key ID 97a1071f
Name : diction Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version : 1.11 Vendor: Fedora Project
Release : 4.fc12 Build Date: Sat Jul 25 07:30:33 2009
Install Date: (not installed) Build Host: x86-6.fedora.phx.redhat.com
Group : Applications/Text Source RPM: diction-1.11-4.fc12.src.rpm
Size : 187412 License: GPLv3+
Signature : RSA/8, Thu Jul 29 01:58:51 2010, Key ID 421caddb97a1071f
Packager : Fedora Project
URL : http://www.gnu.org/software/diction/diction.html
Summary : Identifies diction and style errors
Description :
Diction and style are two old standard UNIX commands. Diction identifies wordy
and commonly misused phrases. Style analyses surface characteristics of a
document, including sentence length and other readability measures.
These programs cannot help you structure a document well, but they can help to
avoid poor wording and compare the readability (not the understandability!) of
your documents with others. Both commands support English and German documents.
tar zxf diction-1.11.tar.gzcd diction-1.11./configure ; make ; make install