Subject: Re: no spell check in Evolution
From: Damien Hull (dhull@digitaloverload.net)
Date: Mon Dec 23 2002 - 14:12:19 AKST
I was going to try and upgrade Evolution but I found out that my mail
box may not carry over. For some reason the new version of Evolution
won't read an old evolution mail box.
This is all second hand info so I'm not sure how true this is. I just
added spell check to the default version in Debian woody.
On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 16:09, Greg Madden wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 11:47, Damien Hull wrote:
> >
> > I finally got spell check to work. I'm not sure what I did to get it to
> > work but It's working.
> >
> > I went through dselect and picked out a few things. I think it may have
> > configured gnome-spell etc...
> >
> > Now I can move on to other problems I'm having with this laptop.
> >
> > On Sat, 2002-12-21 at 23:14, Greg Madden wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sat, 2002-12-21 at 20:13, Damien Hull wrote:
> > > > For some reason I don't have spell check in Evolution. I'm using debian
> > > > and I installed Evolution using apt-get.
> > > >
> > > > Does anyone know how to put spell check back?
> > >
> > > You didn't mention what version of
> > > Debian but I checked my woody install & found I didn't have spell
> > > checking either.
> > >
> > > The packages you need are:
> > >
> > > aspell
> > > gnome-spell (replaces pspell)
> > > ispell
> > >
> > > You also need dictionaries:
> > > aspell-en
> > > iamerican
> > >
> > > I thought I had all these installed but no spell checking in Evolution
> > > 1.0.5. I think Evolution 1.0.,8 or 9 fixes this but this version has
> > > been replaced in unstable by 1.2. I upgraded to Evolution 1.2 + depends
> > > and this has spell checking working here.
>
> Hopefully you didn't heed my advice on upgrading to Evolution 1.2. While
> it has some nice features it depends on many packages from unstable
> which is particularly more unstable now than at some other times :)
>
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