Re: Spell Check Won't Work

From: F J Franklin (F.J.Franklin@sheffield.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Oct 30 2002 - 04:27:19 EST

  • Next message: Phil Dibowitz: "Re: Spell Check Won't Work"

    On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Phil Dibowitz wrote:
    > I'm running Debian Testing.
    > I've installed abiword, ispell, iamerican.

    Well, if you're using debian's abiword, you're almost certainly using
    pspell not ispell, so try "apt-get install aspell-en"

    Frank

    > I've tried symlinking AND copying american.hash to
    >
    > /usr/share/AbiSuite/dictionary
    >
    > And in fact other apps are able to use the ispell stuff fine (such as
    > gaim)...
    >
    > But everytime I try to spellcheck in abiword it says it couldn't find
    > en-us dictionary. I don't geddit.
    >
    > I'm running Abiword 1.0.2, and I can upgrade via tarball if need be, but
    > if there's a simple fix, I'd prefer that.
    >
    > I'm running ispell 3.1.20.0
    >
    > Any help would be much appreciated.
    >
    > --
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    > - Benjamin Franklin, 1759
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