DBpedia

[icebike]

How did DBPedia get installed by default on my KDE 4.3 system?

There is not a shred of help for this application.

It Abends no matter what you type into it

It doesn't even have a help/about.

Google has no clue.

Who does package selection for Kubuntu clean installs, and what were they thinking when they included this package?

[tnorris]

Re: DBpedia

It was installed as a dependency of the plama-scriptengines. I have it as well. I wish I could get rid of it.

dbpedia is part of:

tnorris@tnorris-laptop:~$ dpkg-query -S dbpedia
libkorundum4-ruby1.8: /usr/share/applications/kde4/dbpedia_references.desktop

tnorris@tnorris-laptop:~$ apt-cache showpkg libkorundum4-ruby1.8
Package: libkorundum4-ruby1.8                  
...
Reverse Depends:                                
 plasma-scriptengine-ruby,libkorundum4-ruby1.8                 
 ruby-kde4,libkorundum4-ruby1.8                        
 libkorundum4-ruby1.8-examples,libkorundum4-ruby1.8 4:4.3.0-0ubuntu1~jaunty1  
 ruby-kde4,libkorundum4-ruby1.8                        
 libkorundum4-ruby1.8-examples,libkorundum4-ruby1.8 4:4.2.4-0ubuntu1~jaunty1~ppa1.1                                      
 kdebase-workspace-data,libkorundum4-ruby1.8 4:4.1.80             
 kdebase-workspace-data,libkorundum4-ruby1.8 4:4.1.80             
 ruby-kde4,libkorundum4-ruby1.8                        
 libkorundum4-ruby1.8-examples,libkorundum4-ruby1.8 4:4.2.2-0ubuntu2      
 kita2,libkorundum4-ruby1.8
 kdebase-workspace-data,libkorundum4-ruby1.8 4:4.1.80
 kdebase-workspace-data,libkorundum4-ruby1.8 4:4.1.80
Dependencies:
...
Provides:
4:4.3.0-0ubuntu1~jaunty1 -
4:4.2.4-0ubuntu1~jaunty1~ppa1.1 -
4:4.2.2-0ubuntu2 -
Reverse Provides:

tnorris@tnorris-laptop:~$ apt-cache showpkg plasma-scriptengine-ruby
Package: plasma-scriptengine-ruby
...
Reverse Depends:
 plasma-scriptengines,plasma-scriptengine-ruby 4:4.3.0-0ubuntu1~jaunty1~ppa5
Dependencies:
4:4.3.0-0ubuntu1~jaunty1~ppa5 - libkorundum4-ruby1.8 (0 (null)) kdebase-workspace-bin (3 4:4.1.82+svn893000) kdebase-workspace-data (3 4:4.1.82+svn893000)
Provides:
4:4.3.0-0ubuntu1~jaunty1~ppa5 -
Reverse Provides:

[doctordruidphd]

Re: DBpedia

It appears to be an attempt at an advanced query engine for either an online or offline wikipedia.

http://dbpedia.org/About

It is a ruby program, that is run with:

ruby /usr/share/kde4/apps/dbpedia_references/dbpedia_references.rb

Doesn't do anything here, except bring up a gui that crashes. Apparently there are no data files installed.

[icebike]

Re: DBpedia

Well glad it wasn't just me then. I thought i did something really stupid.