On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 20:24 +0200, guenther wrote: > > > > but I still have no spell checking > > > > function for evolution. (No option shows under > > > > Edit->Preferances->Composer Preferances->Spell Checking <tab>->) > > > > > > > > Here is what I have installed for spell checkers: > > > > > > > > wizej:~ # rpm -qa |grep pell > > > [...] > > > > aspell-0.60.2-3 > > > > aspell-en-0.51.1-2.1 > > > > gnome-spell2-1.0.6-4 > > > > > > Those are the ones necessary for spell checking in Evolution: > > > gnome-spell >= 1.0.x, aspell and at least one aspell-$LANG language > > > package. > > > > > > However, the installed versions aspell 0.60 and aspell-en 0.51 may > > > conflict. Not sure, but IIRC you need to upgrade aspell-en as well. > > > Otherwise this language pack won't work with the installed aspell. > > > > Sorry. Forgot a bit of my own history on this process. I instlled the > > aspell-en from 9.2 tree of SuSE as 9.3 no longer has it. > > If there is no English language available at all, it seems to not be > necessary. *sigh* I doubt SuSE will drop English support. ;) See below. > > > > File:asl-1.42build34-3.i586.rpm 2426 KB 03/22/2005 07:43:00 PM > > File:asl-debuginfo-1.42build34-3.i586.rpm 4 KB 03/22/2005 07:43:00 PM > > File:aspell-cs-debuginfo-0.51.0-4.i586.rpm 3 KB 03/22/2005 08:04:00 PM > > File:aspell-debuginfo-0.60.2-3.i586.rpm 1877 KB 03/22/2005 07:05:00 PM > > File:aspell-en-debuginfo-6.0-3.i586.rpm 3 KB 03/22/2005 08:06:00 PM > > File:aspell-ru-0.50.2-193.i586.rpm 7512 KB 03/22/2005 08:06:00 PM > > > > As you can see their are aspell-en-debug info but no aspell-en package. > > That is why I tried the 9.2 version, but as you alluded to this may not > > work. Is their anyone who knows where I can find an aspell-en package or > > source to compile which will work? I have googled around and tried to > > find source package but no luck. > > Well, maybe that's it? > > IIRC the aspell package of SuSE already contains one language package > (which is not the case with any other distro). The mix of language > packages from different SuSE versions might be the culprit. Even more, > as you now maybe got two English language packs... > > Can anyone else running SuSE 9.3 with a working spell checker please > post the installed packages? > > $ rpm -qa | grep spell | sort > > ...guenther
My 9.3 has enough things in it to be a bit confused, so I'll cut to the chase: I have aspell-en-6.0-3, and my spell checking works fine. -Mark Gordon _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
