Packages such as "wamerican" or "wbritish" will fill in the /usr/share/dict/words link. And various 'wordlist' tools installed by dictionaries-common manage it, e.g.: /usr/sbin/select-default-wordlist
(Though this information does not 'fix' the dangling symlink I hope it is useful for people searching for this problem.) -- /usr/share/dict/words Symlink is Broken on Fresh Dapper Install https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/6501 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs