All, Testing kthesaurus functionality, I built the optional dependency with latest WordNet-3.0 and then updated library database files to the latest 3.1 version of the files. (3.0 is last release - 3.1 is a database only update). It works very well and adds a whole new aspect of thesaurus functionality. It provides the synonymous words in sentence context. Here a two screenshots of both the generic kthesaurus output and the WordNet extension: http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/dt/trinity/ss/koffice-kthesaurus.jpg http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/dt/trinity/ss/koffice-kthesaurus-wordnet.jpg If you want to include WordNet in your build, you will need 'tk' as a dependency, then you will need: WordNet-3.0: http://wordnetcode.princeton.edu/3.0/WordNet-3.0.tar.bz2 3.1 Database Update: http://wordnetcode.princeton.edu/wn3.1.dict.tar.gz Then build with: ./configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man ## change screwy location of dictionary and other dirs: sed 's:#define DEFAULTPATH "/usr/dict":#define DEFAULTPATH "/usr/share/wordnet/dict":' -i config.h sed 's:"/usr/local/WordNet-3.0/lib/wnres":"/usr/share/wordnet/wnres":' -i src/wnb make CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -DUSE_INTERP_RESULT" The continue with packaging (moving default dirs to logical place and update to 3.1 database files): make DESTDIR=$pkgdir install mv $pkgdir/usr/doc $pkgdir/usr/share/wordnet mv $pkgdir/usr/lib/wnres $pkgdir/usr/share/wordnet/wnres rm -fr $pkgdir/usr/include/tk # Replace dictionary files cp -a $srcdir/dict/ $pkgdir/usr/share/wordnet/dict rm -fr $pkgdir/usr/dict install -D -m644 $srcdir/wordnet.desktop $pkgdir/usr/share/applications/wordnet.desktop install -D -m644 $srcdir/wordnet.png $pkgdir/usr/share/pixmaps/wordnet.png install -D -m644 COPYING $pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/COPYING Works well. About a 12M package and 50M install. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.