[Evolution] Evolution multilingual spellchecking in Debian Etch (Newbie).

["Brian Durant" <interlists gmail com>]

Hi,

I just installed Debian Etch (rc1) on an IBM A50p and am trying to
wrap my head around multilingual spellchecking in Evolution (2.6.3). I
managed to get English and Danish spell checking to work by installing
aspell, ispell, myspell, and ienglish, idanish and gnome-spell.

My problem is that I would like to get Indonesian spellchecking to
work as well. As I don't know which spelling system Evolution uses and
because the Evolution documentation refers to using Ximian Red Carpet
(!!!) to install extra dictionaries, I am pretty much lost at this
point. I did find the following link, but I am not sure which of the
dictionaries are the newest, nor if they have anything to do with
Evolution OR how to install the dictionary:

ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/dict/id/

I downloaded aspell5-id-1.2-0.tar.bz2 and then unpacked the archive. The ReadMe
file explained how to compile it (newbie, I have never tried this
before). I followed the instructions and here were the results:

$ ./configure
Finding Dictionary file location ... /usr/lib/aspell
Finding Data file location ... /usr/lib/aspell
$ make
/usr/bin/word-list-compress d < id.cwl | /usr/bin/aspell  --lang=id
create master ./id.rws
$ sudo make install
mkdir -p /usr/lib/aspell/
cp id.rws id.multi indonesian.alias /usr/lib/aspell/
cd /usr/lib/aspell/ && chmod 644 id.rws id.multi indonesian.alias
mkdir -p /usr/lib/aspell/

As far as I can tell, there were not any errors (please confirm), but
when I open Evolution, there is still no Indonesian spellchecking
available. I tried reading the README in aspell5-id-1.2-0.tar.bz2 and
I think I have found a relevant paragraph:

"If any of the above mentioned programs are not in your path than the
variables, ASPELL and/or PREZIP need to be set to the
commands (with path) to run the utilities.  These variables may be set
in the environment before configure is run or specified at the command
line using the following syntax
./configure --vars VAR1=VAL1 ...
Other useful variables configure recognizes are ASPELL_PARMS, and DESTDIR."

Unfortunately, I am a Linux newbie and I have absolutely no idea what
this means or what to do. Any ideas?

Cheers,

Brian