Re: [Evolution] Spell Checker

[Mark Gordon <mtgordon ximian com>]

On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 20:24 +0200, guenther wrote:
> > > > but I still have no spell checking
> > > > function for evolution. (No option shows under
> > > > Edit->Preferances->Composer Preferances->Spell Checking <tab>->)
> > > >
> > > > Here is what I have installed for spell checkers:
> > > >
> > > > wizej:~ # rpm -qa |grep pell
> > > [...]
> > > > aspell-0.60.2-3
> > > > aspell-en-0.51.1-2.1
> > > > gnome-spell2-1.0.6-4
> > >
> > > Those are the ones necessary for spell checking in Evolution:
> > > gnome-spell >= 1.0.x, aspell and at least one aspell-$LANG language
> > > package.
> > >
> > > However, the installed versions aspell 0.60 and aspell-en 0.51 may
> > > conflict. Not sure, but IIRC you need to upgrade aspell-en as well.
> > > Otherwise this language pack won't work with the installed aspell.
> >
> > Sorry. Forgot a bit of my own history on this process. I instlled the
> > aspell-en from 9.2 tree of SuSE as 9.3 no longer has it.
>
> If there is no English language available at all, it seems to not be
> necessary. *sigh* I doubt SuSE will drop English support. ;)  See below.
>
>
> > File:asl-1.42build34-3.i586.rpm 2426 KB 03/22/2005 07:43:00 PM
> > File:asl-debuginfo-1.42build34-3.i586.rpm 4 KB 03/22/2005 07:43:00 PM
> > File:aspell-cs-debuginfo-0.51.0-4.i586.rpm 3 KB 03/22/2005 08:04:00 PM
> > File:aspell-debuginfo-0.60.2-3.i586.rpm 1877 KB 03/22/2005 07:05:00 PM
> > File:aspell-en-debuginfo-6.0-3.i586.rpm 3 KB 03/22/2005 08:06:00 PM
> > File:aspell-ru-0.50.2-193.i586.rpm 7512 KB 03/22/2005 08:06:00 PM
> >
> > As you can see their are aspell-en-debug info but no aspell-en package.
> > That is why I tried the 9.2 version, but as you alluded to this may not
> > work. Is their anyone who knows where I can find an aspell-en package or
> > source to compile which will work? I have googled around and tried to
> > find source package but no luck.
>
> Well, maybe that's it?
>
> IIRC the aspell package of SuSE already contains one language package
> (which is not the case with any other distro). The mix of language
> packages from different SuSE versions might be the culprit. Even more,
> as you now maybe got two English language packs...
>
> Can anyone else running SuSE 9.3 with a working spell checker please
> post the installed packages?
>
> $ rpm -qa | grep spell | sort
>
> ...guenther

My 9.3 has enough things in it to be a bit confused, so I'll cut to the
chase:

I have aspell-en-6.0-3, and my spell checking works fine.

-Mark Gordon