Re: [Evolution] Spell problems take two

[Dan Hensley <dan hensley attbi com>]

On Tue, 2001-12-11 at 03:25, Jeff Soule wrote:
> On Mon, 2001-12-10 at 18:47, Ralph Sanford wrote:
> > I understand your frustration, however I can not provide any additional
> > insights.
>
> No Problem,  At least you tried :-)
>
> >  
> > The method that I described works for SuSE 7.2 or 7.3 on a desktop or
> > laptop with a KDE environment.  Would have expected that this method
> > would easily worked for you assuming that you are using RH and Gnome.
>
> I bet that I could get it to work by adding myself to the root group,
> although that would not be too smart to do :-)  Might me worth a quick
> experiment in either case...   I will spend some more time on this when
> I get a chance.  This seems to be a fairly common problem, just need to
> find the common denominator. 

I have had very few problems with getting the spelling component working
in Evolution, but I've compiled everything (including pspell and aspell)
from source.  It seems that the vast majority of problems posted on this
list are due to RPM problems.  Which is one of the reasons why I despise
RPMs and have compiled everything from source.

But that doesn't really help you.  If you can only get gnome-spell to
work as root, that strongly suggests a permissions problem with either
the component or some of the files and/or libraries it requires.  You
might try checking permissions on the pspell/aspell files gnome-spell
and its dependencies, etc.  Adding yourself to the root group doesn't
seem like a good idea from a security perspective.

Dan




> > Looks like the guys from Ximian will need to provide your solution.
> >
> > Ralph
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 2001-12-10 at 09:16, Jeff Soule wrote:
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > I already tried reinstalling pspell, aspell and gnome-spell :-(
> > > The strange thing is that it works for root and not my own less
> > > privilaged login...  I realy need a spelling checker as I don't spell
> > > well at all.
> > >
> > > Any other ideas?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > /Jeff
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sun, 2001-12-09 at 23:44, Ralph Sanford wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 2001-12-10 at 00:03, Jeff Soule wrote:
> > > > > I think that I do...
> > > > >
> > > > > How can I verify it?  The Gnome Control Center/HTML Viewer says that I
> > > > > do.  Also the gnome-spell-component starts when creating an email 
> > > > > ps -e | grep gnome-spell
> > > > > 15727 ?        00:00:00 gnome-spell-com
> > > > >
> > > > > ?
> > > > >
> > > > > /Jeff
> > > >
> > > > If you are checking the Control Center as a user, then I would believe
> > > > that it has been checked.  It just seemed like a possibility on your
> > > > system where you have spell checking that works but only for one user
> > > > (root), that maybe the HTML Viewer had only been adjusted for root
> > > > settings and not for each of your users.
> > > >
> > > > Other than that, I can not help you very much.  I currently have 3 SuSE
> > > > (SuSE 7.2 and 7.3) systems setup to enjoy spell checker in Evolution. 
> > > > The way it is accomplished in SuSE ( which may mean nothing to your RH
> > > > system) is as follows:
> > > > 1.  Install pspell-0.12.2-ximian.4.i386 using your preferred RPM manager
> > > > to overwrite the existing and higher version numbered files.
> > > > 2.  Use the SuSE program YaST (like rpm --force) to install
> > > > aspell-0.33.7.1-ximian.3.i386 and gnome-spell-0.4-ximian.1.i386.  There
> > > > are dependency problems reported that need to be forced through when
> > > > installing these rpms in SuSE.  The YaST program will also run a
> > > > configuration utility called SuSEconfig after the installation of the
> > > > rpms.
> > > > 3.  Go to gnome control center and turn on spell checking.
> > > > 4.  Log off and then log on.
> > > >
> > > > In SuSE the sequence of installation is important to get evolution spell
> > > > checking to work.  Pspell-0.12.2 MUST be installed before aspell and
> > > > gnome-spell.  Perhaps you can remove pspell, aspell and gnome-spell from
> > > > your system and then reinstall in sequence?  
> > > >
> > > > YMMV.
> >
> > -- 
> > Ralph Sanford       -       If your government does not trust you,
> > rsanford telusplanet net   -   should you trust your government?
> >
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