[Novices] Evolution spell checker

[Brock Inglehart]

On Sat, 2005-01-22 at 08:30 -0500, Bruce Smith wrote:
> > > Does your spell checker work?  Mine looks like this:
> > > 
> > >   http://www.reddog.org/spell.jpg
> > > 
> > > Can you check to see if you're missing some dictionary RPM's,
> > > and if loading any help?  I'm guessing is one of the following:
> > > 
> > > ispell-american-3.2.06-460
> > > ispell-british-3.2.06-460
> > > myspell-american-20040623-2
> > > myspell-british-20040208-28
> > > 
> >
> > Ok, Was that last question to Adam or me (Brock)?  I have no idea what
> > Adam said.  I understand your question but don't know how at this point
> > to check what I think you asked.
> 
> My question was directed at Adam, but I'd like you to look at the
> capture link I posted above and tell me if yours looks different (and
> how it looks different, be specific).
> 
> I did a little research and it appears that Evolution uses the
> gnome-spell* packages, along with maybe aspell/ispell (myspell is for
> OpenOffice).
> 
> Brock, you can also go into add/remove software and search for "spell".
> Then add anything that starts with "gnome" or "gtk", plus add anything
> that starts with "ispell" or "aspell", _except_ for the foreign language
> dictionaries that you don't care about.  You can also skip packages
> ending with a "-devel" suffix.  Then go back to evolution and see if you
> can check a language box like I did in my link above.
> 
>  - BS

What about just bagging Evolution and downloading something like
Thunderbird?  Would that just download and run?
Brock
> 
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