hangman doesn't find wordlist and refuses to start

[Sascha Silbe]

Even after installing some wordlists (e.g. wbritish), hangman refuses to start:

sascha.silbe@pudding:~$ hangman
hangman: fopen /usr/share/dict/words: No such file or directory

This is probably due to the fact that /usr/share/dict/words is a dangling symlink:

sascha.silbe@pudding:~$ ls -l /usr/share/dict/words
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 Apr 29 17:12 /usr/share/dict/words -> /etc/dictionaries-common/words
sascha.silbe@pudding:~$ ls -l /etc/dictionaries-common/words
ls: /etc/dictionaries-common/words: No such file or directory

On Debian systems, select-default-wordlist can be used to change the default wordlist, but on Ubuntu it has absolutely no effect:

root@pudding:~# /usr/sbin/select-default-wordlist
root@pudding:~# ls -l /etc/dictionaries-common/words
ls: /etc/dictionaries-common/words: No such file or directory

hangman is from bsdgames, BTW.

[ville palo (vi64pa)]

Is this still reproducible on released edgy? On my edgy hangman seems to work ok.

[Sascha Silbe (sascha-ubuntu-launchpad)]

I'm using the LTS release (dapper) and currently don't plan to use a short-term version, so I cannot test it on edgy, sorry.

[William Grant (wgrant)]

As described in the previous comments, your report lacks the information we need to investigate the problem further. We'll close this report for now - please reopen it if you can give us the missing information.