Re: Evolution multilingual spellchecking in Debian Etch (Newbie).

["Brian Durant" <interlists@gmail.com>]

On 11/30/06, Sven Arvidsson <sa@whiz.se> wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 15:11 +0100, Brian Durant wrote:
> > I just installed Debian Etch (rc1) on an IBM A50p and am trying to
> > wrap my head around multilingual spellchecking in Evolution (2.6.3). I
> > managed to get English and Danish spell checking to work by installing
> > aspell, ispell, myspell, and ienglish, idanish and gnome-spell.
> >
> > My problem is that I would like to get Indonesian spellchecking to
> > work as well. As I don't know which spelling system Evolution uses and
> > because the Evolution documentation refers to using Ximian Red Carpet
> > (!!!) to install extra dictionaries, I am pretty much lost at this
> > point. I did find the following link, but I am not sure which of the
> > dictionaries are the newest, nor if they have anything to do with
> > Evolution OR how to install the dictionary:
>
> At least Evolution 2.8 uses gnome-spell, based on aspell, I guess 2.6
> does the same.
>
> I guess you could take a look at your installed aspell languages (dpkg
> -L aspell-xx) and figure out where to install the indonesian
> dictionaries.
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Sven Arvidsson
> http://www.whiz.se
> PGP Key ID 760BDD22

Hi Sven,

Thanks for replying. OK, here is what I did. I downloaded
aspell5-id-1.2-0.tar.bz2 and then unpacked the archive. The ReadMe
file explained how to compile it (newbie, I have never tried this
before). I followed the instructions and here were the results:

$ ./configure
Finding Dictionary file location ... /usr/lib/aspell
Finding Data file location ... /usr/lib/aspell
$ make
/usr/bin/word-list-compress d < id.cwl | /usr/bin/aspell  --lang=id
create master ./id.rws
$ sudo make install
mkdir -p /usr/lib/aspell/
cp id.rws id.multi indonesian.alias /usr/lib/aspell/
cd /usr/lib/aspell/ && chmod 644 id.rws id.multi indonesian.alias
mkdir -p /usr/lib/aspell/

As far as I can tell, there were not any errors (please confirm), but
when I open Evolution, there is still no Indonesian spellchecking
available. Any ideas?

Cheers,

Brian