hey it worked, im impressed :) aspell and pspell installed from suse8 dvd, evolution 1.0.8 from your site, and gnome-spell, and now i have every "linux" underlined in red because i didn't capitalise the L :) Ewan On Mon, 2002-07-01 at 12:46, James Ogley wrote:

You need gnome-spell, which in turn is based on pspell.

You could try the version at www.usr-local-bin.org/gnome-spell.php (no long linked on the site as I'm not 100% convinced about it - it works for me at work, but not at home!)

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I think you probably also need an aspell dictionary for your $LANG - I use one from Ximian, my $LANG is en_GB, so I've got aspell-en-gb-0.33.7.1-ximian.3 installed

I would like to get the spell-checker working in Evolution as well. I installed aspell and pspell and also gnome-spell but Evolution still won't underline misspelled words. In addition, if I type out an email and go to Edit|Spell Check Document, it tells me that no misspelled words are found (when it should have). I am using Evolution 1.0.7. Is there some place I'm supposed to "turn on" spell checking in Evolution? I looked everywhere but couldn't find it. Any suggestions? Thanks for your help. -- James Ogley, Unix Systems Administrator, Pinnacle Insurance Plc james.ogley@pinnacle.co.uk www.pinnacle.co.uk +44 (0) 20 8731 3619 Using Free Software since 1994, running GNU/Linux (SuSE 8.0) Updated GNOME RPMs for SuSE Linux: www.usr-local-bin.org

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On Tue, 2002-07-02 at 19:55, Charles Griffin wrote:

Any other suggestions would be most appreciated.

Please start Evolution from a console, try to do a spell check and post any error messages that appears in the console. Charles -- "I once witnessed a long-winded, month-long flamewar over the use of mice vs. trackballs...It was very silly." (By Matt Welsh)

On Wed, 2002-07-03 at 09:55, Charles Griffin wrote:

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I think you probably also need an aspell dictionary for your $LANG - I use one from Ximian, my $LANG is en_GB, so I've got aspell-en-gb-0.33.7.1-ximian.3 installed

Yes, I also have aspell-en installed along with aspell, pspell, and gnome-spell. I've also checked gnomecc and spell-checking is enabled with "en" as the language in HTML Viewer|Miscelleaneous.

I also upgraded to Evolution 1.0.8 and upgraded the above-mentioned spelling packages to the most recent versions (using the very nice SuSE apt-get!). Still, Evolution won't spell-check my emails. Any other suggestions would be most appreciated.

Thanks, Charles

Hi Charles, I was in exactly the same position as you, until yesterday. I downloaded the rpm of gnome-spell at www.usr-local-bin.org/gnome-spell.php and immediately I installed it Evolution 1.08 started spell checking :) I don't know why it works where others don't, but I am sure glad it does. HTH Dave