Looking more closely, I think when you ask to install one of the language dictionaries it also installs the whole spell checker library as well (because it is a dependency for installing the dictionary).
On Monday, September 16, 2024 at 7:46:53 PM UTC-4 [email protected] wrote: > I've had this issue and behavior while setting up Leo on my Arch Linux > machines. EndeavorOS is Arch based, so it's reaffirming that your solution > matched mine -- specifically, install the package 'hunspell-en_us' ( > https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/any/hunspell-en_us/). This is not > an Arch (or derivatives) specific issue, but I suspect it's more *likely* > to happen on Arch(-based) systems because of how Arch packages the > dictionaries separately, and doesn't seem to include them as a requirement > for any other commonly installed packages. I suspect other distros may > have dictionaries managed at the OS level or as some commonly-installed > metapackage (I know Ubuntu did at one point, as part of 'Language Support', > though I believe that to be outdated now). > > Jake > > On Mon, Sep 16, 2024 at 7:26 PM Thomas Passin <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I have just been provisioning a brand new Linux computer. Well, it's >> fairly old, some 10 years, but I've supplied it with a large external SSD >> drive to supersede its 5400 RPM old hard drive. This change has made the >> computer fairly snappy. I've done this before, so I could use it as a >> backup machine if my main laptop needs to be out of service. That happened >> once before and I was even able to continue getting my email on the Linux >> machine using Thunderbird. >> >> This new distro is EndeavourOS. I created a venv, cloned the Leo git repo >> onto it, and got everything running. As has often happened on Linux >> systems, I got startup messages about missing spellcheck libraries. On >> other VMs, these messages didn't denote any spellcheck problem. Spellcheck >> still worked. One of the messages was to install pyenchant, not enchant. >> pyenchant was in fact already installed. >> >> The spell check tab in the log frame was there but the spell checker died >> as soon as I tried to spell check a node. After some digging around and >> debugging I have tracked down the problem and found a solution. I'm not >> sure how this information should be captured and used by anyone else, but >> here's what I learned. >> >> First of all, the reason there can be several warning messages about >> different spell check libraries is that pyenchant (or maybe it's the >> underlying enchant) check for the presence of at least on out of as many as >> five different spell check libraries that might be present. It can use any >> one of them but for some reason emits error messages for each one it fails >> to find even if it will actually work with the one it did find. >> >> Among them are ASpell and Hunspell. ASpell might be the most familiar. >> When Leo starts, the it tries to create a spell check dictionary using >> whichever of the spellers that pyenchant has found; the choice is not made >> by Leo but happens behind the scene. If it can't make the dictionary >> after trying several ways it emits the message I saw about needing to >> install pyenchant not enchant. This message was wrong and misleading in my >> case and probably in many others. >> >> The real situation turned out to be that the OS had installed ASpell and >> Hunspell (at least, I didn't check any others) but had not actually >> installed any word dictionaries. Not only that but the name of the >> dictionary that Leo uses only fits Hunspell; ASpell uses a different naming >> convention. >> >> Using the OS's package manager to install the Hunspell US English >> dictionary solved the problem. >> >> I haven't seen this happen on other Linux VMs I've built so either they >> did install these dictionaries or I never used the spell checker with them. >> I don't know how Leo figures out the right dictionary name to use for other >> languages, but someone will reply here with that knowledge I'm sure. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "leo-editor" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/leo-editor/872deb72-4b61-4193-93e8-7490fb4b56a4n%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/leo-editor/872deb72-4b61-4193-93e8-7490fb4b56a4n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/leo-editor/a04fcfcf-b2ee-4a2b-86bf-935609434f4fn%40googlegroups.com.
