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From: Alex Bennee <alex@××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get spellchecking to work on evolution
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 09:23:21
Message-Id: 1132650919.27559.4.camel@malory
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get spellchecking to work on evolution by "C. Beamer"
1 On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 19:56 +0000, C. Beamer wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > Alex Bennee wrote:
5 >
6 > >Although its enabled evolution never picks up any mis-spelled words. I
7 > >suspect its something to do with the fact no dictionaries are selectable
8 > >in the preferences dialog.
9 > >
10 > >I have aspell-en installed but that doesn't seem to be enough.
11 > >
12 > >Any ideas?
13 > >
14 > >
15 > I don't know if this will help, but make sure that you've emerged ispell
16 > and/or aspell. I had aspell installed, but couldn't spell check in
17 > another application because I needed ispell installed.
18
19 I had both emerged. However it looks like gnome-spell only needs aspell
20 to work:
21
22 [ebuild N ] app-text/gnome-spell-1.0.5-r2 -debug 211 kB
23 [ebuild N ] app-text/enchant-1.1.6 -debug 431 kB
24 [ebuild N ] app-dicts/aspell-en-0.51.1 168 kB
25 [ebuild N ] app-text/aspell-0.50.5-r4 +gpm 992 kB
26
27 Still no dice though :-(
28
29
30 > HTH.
31 >
32 > Colleen
33 --
34 Alex, homepage: http://www.bennee.com/~alex/
35 Don't drink when you drive -- you might hit a bump and spill it.
36
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