Re: No Spell checking in Mandrake

On Tuesday 13 Jul 2004 19:07, Mark Gilbert wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 13:35, Keith Powell wrote:
> > On Tuesday 13 Jul 2004 17:08, Ryan Pavlik wrote:
> > > Keith Powell wrote:
> > > >I am experimenting with several distros to see which I want to use as
> > > > my Linux distribution. (Have been messing about with various distros
> > > > for too long and it's time to standardise). I would like to use
> > > > Abiword as my word processor.
> > > >
> > > >Abiword spell checking (English-GB) works with my SUSE and my Libranet
> > > >distros, but not with my Mandrake distro. In Mandrake, the spell check
> > > > icon and the menu item remain greyed out, and nothing I have tried
> > > > will activate it. I am using version 2.0.7 with Mandrake and SUSE and
> > > > 2.0.1 in Libranet. I have also tried 2.1.3 in Mandrake.
> > > >
> > > >As far as I can tell,"normal.awt" and "profile" settings are the same
> > > > for all, and aspell with an English dictionary is installed in all
> > > > the distros. Ispell is also installed.
> > > >
> > > >Has anyone got Abiword to spell check in Mandrake, please? If so,
> > > > could you give me a guide what to do?
> > > >
> > > >Many thanks for any help.
> > > >
> > > >Keith
> > >
> > > Have you tried installing Enchant? I don't have any experience with
> > > AbiWord in Mandrake, but I know that the SuSE and Fedora official
> > > builds depend on Enchant. http://www.abisource.com/download/
> > >
> > > Ryan
> >
> > Thank you for the suggestion, Ryan.
> >
> > I have checked and Enchant is installed.
>
> Try 'urpmi aspell-en' (or of course you can replace 'en' with just about
> any language)
>
> Regards
> -MG

Just tried that, Mark. Got the message that everything is installed. :-(

Thanks for the suggestion

Cheers

Keith
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Received on Tue Jul 13 20:56:22 2004