I am not criticizing the installer. The first time I install LyX was a pain in
the a%s#s. Now it is wonderful!
In my case it is only me who uses my machine, but I am a mess, and sometimes I choose all users, other times the current user (it
depends on the weather! ;-))
What I was trying to say is that the installer could include a warning about the potential problem. That is, once the installer
proceeds to the installation of Aspell and/or the dictionaries, a dialog could be shown saying something like: "If you have a previous
installation of Aspell, be aware of bla, bla, bla. If you experience this, please check the wiki at ..."
It would then be much easier for the user to solve the problem.
Cheers,
Nicolás
Joost Verburg wrote:
Nicolás wrote:
I experienced exactly the same problem. In my case LyX was using the
version installed for all users (I guess it depends on the option you
choose when installing LyX).
I think the installer should warn about this situation. Ideally, the
installer should be able to install the dictionaries in the right
directory.
The installer installs the dictionaries for all users if LyX is
installed for all users and for the current user if LyX is only
installed for the current user.
If you install LyX for all users but have an additional copy of Aspell
for the current user, LyX will use the current user version of Aspell.
This allows you to use install dictionaries that have not been installed
by the system administrator.
So the installer does the right thing. The only problem is that some
users were not aware of a previously installed current user version of
Aspell. I think this is likely the case because installation of Aspell
used to be quite problematic before the current system was created, so
users often tried a few things before it worked right.
Joost
