This is what I do to debug spell-checking problems in Evolution. 1. Install the Balsa mail client. 2. Open a Composer window in Balsa, and do spell-checking. 3. If there is a problem, a window will pop-up giving a pretty good descriptive message of what is wrong.
Balsa does not use gnome-spell, but it uses aspell, so there is a chance that any problem there will be a problem in Evolution also. This helped me on two occasions when spell-checking suddenly broke. Turns out that some files from aspell were missing. This method is somewhat extreme but it has helped me before. Evolution should have a similar debug output window, IMHO. Ujwal On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 07:42, Andy Cedilnik wrote: > Hello! > > (Sory fur mispeled woards, boot mi spail checher dose nut wark...) > > A while ago collegue who uses Mandrake 8.1 and used Evolution 1.0.2, > asked me (Debian Woody, Evolution 1.0.3) how can he get spell check to > work. I said: "Install gnome-spell" and he did. He used Red-carpet to do > that and it did not work. He has gnome-spell installed but spell > checking still does not work. > > I since upgraded to Evolution 1.0.5 from Debian Woody repository and > spell check worked better than ever. Today however, I wanted to install > Mozilla 1.0 which is in Ximian's repository, and in the process it > updated my Evolution to 1.0.7. Now my spell check does not work any > more. I traced the problem to the fact that gnome-spell did not get > installed. The reason? Well, gnome-spell depends on aspell, aspell, > depends on libpspell and libtdl, and libpspell depends on libtdl. libtdl > however does not exist. > > So, why would Evolution not do spell checking on Mandrake 8.1 with > gnome-spell, aspell, and everything installed with Evolution 1.0.3? > > What about that libtdl? > > Thank you. > > Andy > > > _______________________________________________ > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
