[Novices] Evolution spell checker

Adam Tauno Williams awilliam at whitemice.org
Sun Jan 23 11:42:44 EST 2005


> > > > 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.
> > > What about just bagging Evolution 
> > It's really not that hard to check a few packages and install them.
> I have -
> laptop01:/media/cdrecorder/suse/i586 # rpm -qa | grep spell
> myspell-american-20040623-2
> ispell-british-3.2.06-460
> gtkspell-2.0.5-58
> aspell-0.50.5-40
> ispell-3.2.06-460
> myspell-british-20040208-28
> ispell-american-3.2.06-460
> gnome-spell2-1.0.5-218
> gnome-spell-0.5-248
> - but still no composer spell checking in evo.  Hmmmm...

Bingo!  Jackpot! Eureka!  ShaZzam!

laptop01:/media/cdrecorder/suse/i586 # rpm --install
aspell-en-0.51.1-2.i586.rpm

Now my dialog looks like Brucies'.

(Apparently aspell is a dependency of GNOME's spelling widgetry, but
nothing installs any dictionaries....?)



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