Re: How to setup abiword spell checker in SuSE 9?

From: M. en T.E. Alejandro Diaz Infante (linux_at_enmac.net)
Date: Fri Feb 06 2004 - 14:59:13 EST

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    On Friday 06 February 2004 01:35 pm, you wrote:
    > --- "M. en T.E. Alejandro Diaz Infante"
    >
    > <linux_at_enmac.net> wrote:
    > > On Friday 06 February 2004 11:08 am, you wrote:
    > > > > Tried the four combinations without success.
    > > > >
    > > > > cp -r /usr/lib/ispell/ /usr/lib/enchant/
    > > > > cp -r /usr/share/myspell/ /usr/lib/enchant/
    > > > > cp -r /usr/lib/ispell/ /home/alex/.enchant/
    > > > > cp -r /usr/share/myspell/ /home/alex/.enchant/
    > > >
    > > > What did you just do?
    > > >
    > > > You need to copy any Ispell dictionaries to:
    > > >
    > > > ~/.enchant/ispell/
    > > > $prefix/share/enchant/ispell/
    > >
    > > I think I did that. The contents of /usr/lib/ispell
    > > are dictionaries:
    >
    > No, you copied things to /usr/lib/enchant before,
    > which is not the same as /usr/share/enchant.
    >

    Oh, there is no /usr/share/enchant in the rpm for SuSE 9.0
    ( http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/abiword/enchant-1.1.3-100.SuSE.ulb.1.i586.rpm?download ),
    so I copied to the only directory program available, /usr/lib/enchant. The
    contents of enchant rpm are

    /usr/bin/enchant
    /usr/bin/enchant-lsmod
    /usr/lib/enchant/libenchant_aspell.so
    /usr/lib/enchant/libenchant_aspell.so.1
    /usr/lib/enchant/libenchant_aspell.so.1.1.3
    /usr/lib/enchant/libenchant_hspell.so
    /usr/lib/enchant/libenchant_hspell.so.1
    /usr/lib/enchant/libenchant_hspell.so.1.1.3
    /usr/lib/enchant/libenchant_ispell.so
    /usr/lib/enchant/libenchant_ispell.so.1
    /usr/lib/enchant/libenchant_ispell.so.1.1.3
    /usr/lib/enchant/libenchant_myspell.so
    /usr/lib/enchant/libenchant_myspell.so.1
    /usr/lib/enchant/libenchant_myspell.so.1.1.3
    /usr/lib/libenchant.so.1
    /usr/lib/libenchant.so.1.1.3
    /usr/man/man1/enchant.1.gz
    /usr/share/doc/packages/enchant
    /usr/share/doc/packages/enchant/AUTHORS
    /usr/share/doc/packages/enchant/BUGS
    /usr/share/doc/packages/enchant/COPYING.LIB
    /usr/share/doc/packages/enchant/ChangeLog
    /usr/share/doc/packages/enchant/HACKING
    /usr/share/doc/packages/enchant/MAINTAINERS
    /usr/share/doc/packages/enchant/NEWS
    /usr/share/doc/packages/enchant/README
    /usr/share/doc/packages/enchant/TODO

    I also created an .enchant directory in my $HOME, created ispell and myspell
    dictionaries inside .enchant, and copied dictionaries to their respective
    directories. It didn't work, either.

    > Anyway, things should "just work". Unless SuSe uses a
    > broken version of libtool which won't let you use C++
    > plugins inside of a C library.
    >
    > In case James Olgey is paying attention, I think that
    > libtool 1.6 fixes this. Alternately, you can do
    > something like "CC=c++ ./configure && make && make
    > install".
    >
    > Things you can try:
    >
    > 1)
    > Type 'enchant-lsmod' sometime, and email me back the
    > results. Make sure that you have some backends
    > installed.
    >

    hspell: 'Hspell Provider' (/usr/lib/enchant/libenchant_hspell.so)
    aspell: 'Aspell Provider' (/usr/lib/enchant/libenchant_aspell.so)
    myspell: 'Myspell Provider' (/usr/lib/enchant/libenchant_myspell.so)
    ispell: 'Ispell Provider' (/usr/lib/enchant/libenchant_ispell.so)

    > 2)
    > Type 'enchant-lsmod -lang', to see what backend
    > Enchant would use for your environment variable $LANG.
    >

    Ummh... for either english or spanish it uses the Hspell!

    en_US: hspell = Hspell Provider (/usr/lib/enchant/libenchant_hspell.so)
    es_ES: hspell = Hspell Provider (/usr/lib/enchant/libenchant_hspell.so)

    > 3)
    > Type 'enchant-lsmod -lang en', to see what backend
    > Enchant would use for English. Try '-lang es' to see
    > what backend it would use for Spanish.
    >
    Same thing:

    en: hspell = Hspell Provider (/usr/lib/enchant/libenchant_hspell.so)
    es: hspell = Hspell Provider (/usr/lib/enchant/libenchant_hspell.so)

    > 4)
    > Type 'echo "helllo" | enchant -a' to see if Enchant
    > will come up with a list of suggestions for "helllo".

    This is the output:

    alex_at_linux:/usr/lib/enchant> echo "helllo" | enchant -a
    @(#) International Ispell Version 3.1.20 (but really Enchant 1.1.3)
    # helllo 1

    > If you're running in a Spanish locale, try a similarly
    > misspelled Spanish word with obvious suggestions.
    >

    Same thing in Spanish:

    @(#) International Ispell Version 3.1.20 (but really Enchant 1.1.3)
    # prueva 1

    And the same with a word without mispellings

    @(#) International Ispell Version 3.1.20 (but really Enchant 1.1.3)
    # prueba 1

    Thanks for your help.

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