Re: [Evolution] Spell problems take two

[Jeff Soule <jsoule webcrossing com>]

On Mon, 2001-12-10 at 18:47, Ralph Sanford wrote:
> I understand your frustration, however I can not provide any additional
> insights.

No Problem,  At least you tried :-)

>  
> The method that I described works for SuSE 7.2 or 7.3 on a desktop or
> laptop with a KDE environment.  Would have expected that this method
> would easily worked for you assuming that you are using RH and Gnome.

I bet that I could get it to work by adding myself to the root group,
although that would not be too smart to do :-)  Might me worth a quick
experiment in either case...   I will spend some more time on this when
I get a chance.  This seems to be a fairly common problem, just need to
find the common denominator. 

> Looks like the guys from Ximian will need to provide your solution.
>
> Ralph
>
>
> On Mon, 2001-12-10 at 09:16, Jeff Soule wrote:
> > Thanks,
> >
> > I already tried reinstalling pspell, aspell and gnome-spell :-(
> > The strange thing is that it works for root and not my own less
> > privilaged login...  I realy need a spelling checker as I don't spell
> > well at all.
> >
> > Any other ideas?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > /Jeff
> >
> >
> > On Sun, 2001-12-09 at 23:44, Ralph Sanford wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2001-12-10 at 00:03, Jeff Soule wrote:
> > > > I think that I do...
> > > >
> > > > How can I verify it?  The Gnome Control Center/HTML Viewer says that I
> > > > do.  Also the gnome-spell-component starts when creating an email 
> > > > ps -e | grep gnome-spell
> > > > 15727 ?        00:00:00 gnome-spell-com
> > > >
> > > > ?
> > > >
> > > > /Jeff
> > >
> > > If you are checking the Control Center as a user, then I would believe
> > > that it has been checked.  It just seemed like a possibility on your
> > > system where you have spell checking that works but only for one user
> > > (root), that maybe the HTML Viewer had only been adjusted for root
> > > settings and not for each of your users.
> > >
> > > Other than that, I can not help you very much.  I currently have 3 SuSE
> > > (SuSE 7.2 and 7.3) systems setup to enjoy spell checker in Evolution. 
> > > The way it is accomplished in SuSE ( which may mean nothing to your RH
> > > system) is as follows:
> > > 1.  Install pspell-0.12.2-ximian.4.i386 using your preferred RPM manager
> > > to overwrite the existing and higher version numbered files.
> > > 2.  Use the SuSE program YaST (like rpm --force) to install
> > > aspell-0.33.7.1-ximian.3.i386 and gnome-spell-0.4-ximian.1.i386.  There
> > > are dependency problems reported that need to be forced through when
> > > installing these rpms in SuSE.  The YaST program will also run a
> > > configuration utility called SuSEconfig after the installation of the
> > > rpms.
> > > 3.  Go to gnome control center and turn on spell checking.
> > > 4.  Log off and then log on.
> > >
> > > In SuSE the sequence of installation is important to get evolution spell
> > > checking to work.  Pspell-0.12.2 MUST be installed before aspell and
> > > gnome-spell.  Perhaps you can remove pspell, aspell and gnome-spell from
> > > your system and then reinstall in sequence?  
> > >
> > > YMMV.
>
> -- 
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