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

["Brian Durant" <interlists gmail com>]

Hi Andre,

On 12/3/06, Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net> wrote:
> hi brian,
>
> Am Sonntag, den 03.12.2006, 17:53 +0100 schrieb Brian Durant:
> > 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.
>
> you need gnome-spell >= 1.0.7 to have indonesian spell-checking in
> evolution [1].

I have gnome-spell 1.0.7.1

> >  As I don't know which spelling system Evolution uses
>
> make sure you have gnome-spell >= 1.0.7, aspell and aspell-XX (where XX
> is your locale, for example aspell-en for US English or aspell-en-uk for
> British English) installed, depending on your distribution package
> system. Evolution does not use myspell, ispell or the OpenOffice.org
> dictionaries.

OK, I have both aspell-en and aspell-da. I can't find any aspell-id in
the Debian repository.

> > and because the Evolution documentation refers to using Ximian Red
> > Carpet (!!!) to install extra dictionaries,
>
> this is a bit better in the evolution 2.8 documentation, it now says:
> "To choose a spell-checking language, select it here. You must install
> the gnome-spell package, available through ZENworks(TM) Linux
> Management, for spell-checking to be available in Evolution. Additional
> dictionaries are also available through Red Carpet(TM) and are detected
> automatically if you have installed them. You must also install the
> aspell package. If this is the case, please contact your packager."

OK, I have the gnome-spell package and aspell without using ZENworks.
As far as Red Carpet is concerned, I thought it was defunct after
Novell bought out Ximian. Sorry, but I still don't understand how to
get an aspell-id package except maybe through this URL :
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/dict/id/ I don't really see how this
help file is any more helpful for a newbie as there are absolutely no
instructions (as quoted) that explains the process of installing extra
dictionaries.

> cheers,
> andre
>
> [1] http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gnome-spell/gnome-spell/dictionary.c?r1=1.38&r2=1.39

I can see a difference in this link between a version version 1.38 and
version 1.39 for something called "dictionary.c" that has something to
do with the "gnome-spell" package, but again, I really don't
understand what I am looking at or how this will help me to get
Indonesian "aspell" working. Is what I did with trying to compile and
install aspell5-id-1.2-0.tar.bz2 correct? Should I have used
aspell-id-0.50.1-0.tar.bz2 instead? Or do I need to do something
totally different?

Cheers,

Brian