That sim link sounds like it should do the trick, have you got
/usr/local/AbiSuite/dictionary/ and if so what is in it, I had to manually copy
a file called american.hash which I think is the word list for spell checking to
work.
Ron
Quoting David Shochat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Hi all I had exactly the same problem on Friday, I spent ages
> downloading the
> > missing packages and still never got it to work. In the end I dumped
> the rpm
> > version which I have never heard of anybody getting to work and
> download the
> > source in gz format. Installed that and all worked first time.
>
> I got the rpm versions (with and without the "gnome" in the name)
> working by upgrading my gnome using helix (now ximian). I also had to
> put in a symlink for libgal.so.2 -> libgal.so.3.0.1 since helix gave me
> the latter. My only problem is that spell checking doesn't work:
>
> $ abiword
> SpellCheckInit: Pspell error: I'm sorry I can't find any sutable word
> lists for the language-tag "en".
>
> Still haven't figured out how to solve that one.
> -- David
>
>
>
>
Ron McKeating
Computing Services
Loughborough University
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