This one time, at band camp, Maya said: > First of > ~~~~~~~~ > After reading the information about upgrading to GNOME2 provided by > gnome.org, I > changed the 'sources.list' database from stable to unstable, did the > updating and upgrading of the system and taataaa... No problems. I have > noticed a grate improvement in the system; the applications run much > faster and, so far, all the applications share data more effectively, > the GUI is much nicer and all the applications are newer than the ones > in the stable database. Mind you though, I have not yet install GNOME2 > I am still using the whatever portion of GNMOME2 that comes with the > unstable packages. > Now, I have not tested this on a real life network, but it is showing > promises though. > The reason why I am not tested the upgrade on a real life network is > because I first test all new things on a P133 box called, of course, > TESTER_BOX, which runs Debian Linux and 64MB of RAM. > > Congrats to the GNOME team as well as all the support application > developers. Keep up the good work! > > PROBLEMS in paradise > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > At this stage in the upgrade I have but one serious problem, for some > reason my EPSON Stylus COLOR 800 printer is spitting out garbage when I > try to print from any of the GNOME applications [AbiWord, Balsa, > Galeon], with the exception of gnomepad+ and gEdit. I checked/tested > the printer before the upgrade though and it was OK. Note that > TESTER_BOX has installed lpr and apsfilter to take care of the printing > spooling and printcap respectively. It would appear that the problem > resides in those applications that encode text, since it is only those > applications that are showing this problem. Someone suggested that it > was 'gnome-print' the source of the problem, I couldn't say that that > is for sure. NEdit, gnomepad, gEdit save data in text mode; these data > is printed correctly from the application itself or form the command > prompt. > > Another problem, although a minor one, is that none of the GNOME > applications can check spell. From Balsa I get a message that reads: > > I am sorry I can't find any suitable word lists for language-tag "en". > > From Abiword one that reads: > > Could not loads the dictionary for the en-US language. > > > I would appreciate any help regarding these matters. > > > Thanks in advance I can't help you with the printing, at least not without more details, but the spellchecker problem is simple - both of those programs are looking for an external dictionary to check words against. I know abiword can use either ispell or aspell, don't know about balsa offhand. Check the recommends line in `apt-cache show balsa` - it'll tell you what dictionary it wants. Alternately, use dselect or aptitude - it'll attempt to pull in the recommends. HTH, Steve -- Like punning, programming is a play on words.
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