Re: [Evolution] no languages for spell checking?

["Brian A. Seklecki" <lavalamp spiritual-machines org>]

On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 18:14, guenther wrote:
> > In evolution 1.4.5, I can't get spell checking to work (show squiggly
> > red lines).  I'd try clicking and unclicking the languages in
> > Tools->Settings->Composer Preferences->SpellChecking but the list of
> > languages is blank, even though I have aspell and US and Canadian
> > dictionaries installed via red-carpet.
>
> If your distro ships with recent aspell packages, you should install
> them. Distros shipping with outdated aspell packages (like RH9) need the

what if you do have the latest aspell (pspell is now integrated)
packages by whatever means and this is still the case

what's the best way to go about debugging this.  how does evo* check for
availability?

-lava

> recent versions packaged by Ximian to be installed. These packages are
> on the Ximian FTP server and mirrors -- you can get them via Red-Carpet.
>
> You will at least need aspell, aspell-$LANG and gnome-spell1 packages.
>
>
> Mark wrote some details about spell checking (archive). Please start by
> following this instructions:
>  http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/users/2003-June/010000.html
>
> ...guenther