abiword can't find dictionary inSuSE 8.2

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Jonathan Dlouhy

16 Jul 2003 16 Jul '03

07:34

When I try to run the spellchecker with abiword 1.0.4, I get a message saying it can't find a dictionary. I have ispell installed, so there should be a dictionary installed. Thanks, -- Jonathan Dlouhy Wednesday, July 16, 2003 03:32 AM ---------------------------------------------------------------- I.R.S.: We've got what it takes to take what you've got! ---------------------------------------------------------------- Registered Linux user #264482 Powered by SuSE 8.2

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James Ogley

16 Jul 16 Jul

09:22

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When I try to run the spellchecker with abiword 1.0.4, I get a message saying it can't find a dictionary. I have ispell installed, so there should be a dictionary installed.

In AbiWord 1.0.x, you need abispell, which you can get from http://sf.net/projects/abiword Alternatively, you could upgrade to the 2.0 beta (1.99.2 is the latest) from www.usr-local-bin.org/abiword.php - it's pretty rock-solid for me, and introduces a whole raft of features not in 1.0 such as tables. -- James Ogley, Webmaster, Rubber Turnip james@rubberturnip.org.uk http://www.rubberturnip.org.uk Jabber: riggwelter@myjabber.net Using Free Software since 1994, running GNU/Linux (SuSE 8.2) GNOME updates for SuSE: http://www.usr-local-bin.org

Stanley Long

16:27

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James Ogley wrote:

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When I try to run the spellchecker with abiword 1.0.4, I get a message saying it can't find a dictionary. I have ispell installed, so there should be a dictionary installed.

Same problem here ...

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In AbiWord 1.0.x, you need abispell, which you can get from http://sf.net/projects/abiword

Alternatively, you could upgrade to the 2.0 beta (1.99.2 is the latest) from www.usr-local-bin.org/abiword.php - it's pretty rock-solid for me, and introduces a whole raft of features not in 1.0 such as tables.

Getting a spellchecker for a wordprocessor is a GOOD thing, but getting several text apps (especially the email package) to use the same dictionary appears not to be a priority with developers :-(( This is written on Mozilla 1.21. My Abiword is 1.04. I use it for most things. I use Open Office when Abiword isn't enough. Lyx is being tested. I miss not having CoolEdit on SuSE 8.x because it did such nice text preparation for input to VariCAD (drafting package). All four text app should be using one common dictionary, so it shouldn't be an internal component of any one of them. Where does the newest Abiword take me with respect to a common dictionary? This SuSE 8.2 box was the "testing" machine, but it works so nicely that I started doing almost all of my office work on it. Now I avoid wild experiments w/o good recommendations from suse-linux-e.

Patrick Shanahan

20:50

New subject: Cooledit, was: [SLE] abiword can't find dictionary inSuSE 8.2

* Stanley Long [07-16-03 11:23]: [snip ...]

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This is written on Mozilla 1.21. My Abiword is 1.04. I use it for most things. I use Open Office when Abiword isn't enough. Lyx is being tested. I miss not having CoolEdit on SuSE 8.x because it did such nice text preparation for input to VariCAD (drafting package).

Cooledit is available, http://cooledit.sourceforge.net/ ./configure ./make [as root] checkinstall and you have an rpm install, there are no unmet dependencies. -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org

Stanley Long

19 Jul 19 Jul

07:14

New subject: [SLE] Cooledit, was: [SLE] abiword can't find dictionary inSuSE 8.2

Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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* Stanley Long [07-16-03 11:23]: [snip ...]

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This is written on Mozilla 1.21. My Abiword is 1.04. I use it for most things. I use Open Office when Abiword isn't enough. Lyx is being tested. I miss not having CoolEdit on SuSE 8.x because it did such nice text preparation for input to VariCAD (drafting package).

Cooledit is available, http://cooledit.sourceforge.net/

Yep, got cooledit-3.17.7.tar.gz

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./configure OK ./make OK [as root] checkinstall can't get this to go ...

We had a couple other wannabe RPM builders (Redhat & Debian types) trying to get the rpm info to work. No luck yet tonight at or Anchorage "Friday Linux" worksession.

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and you have an rpm install, there are no unmet dependencies.

Might you have been working to an earlier version? Might we be NOT following your suggestion? More suggestions? Thanks Stanley Long.

Joe Morris (NTM)

09:05

New subject: [SLE] Cooledit, was: [SLE] abiword can't find dictionary inSuSE 8.2

Stanley Long wrote, On 07/19/2003 03:14 PM:

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Yep, got cooledit-3.17.7.tar.gz

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./configure

OK

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./make

OK

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[as root] checkinstall

can't get this to go ...

We had a couple other wannabe RPM builders (Redhat & Debian types) trying to get the rpm info to work. No luck yet tonight at or Anchorage "Friday Linux" worksession.

Did you try looking/configuring the config file for checkinstall, i.e. /etc/checkinstallrc. Just check through and set it up. If your program was able to configure and make, the hard part is done. Also check if the program has any oddities. Most will say in their install file to configure (with your options), make, and make install. If your program does NOT use make install (the norm and default expected by checkinstall), then give what it does expect via an argument (-si). More info at checkinstall -h. -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Web Address: http://www.mydestiny.net/~joe_morris Registered Linux user 231871 God said, I AM that I AM. I say, by the grace of God, I am what I am.

Patrick Shanahan

11:15

New subject: [SLE] Cooledit, was: [SLE] abiword can't find dictionary inSuSE 8.2

* Stanley Long [07-19-03 02:17]:

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Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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* Stanley Long [07-16-03 11:23]: [snip ...]

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This is written on Mozilla 1.21. My Abiword is 1.04. I use it for most things. I use Open Office when Abiword isn't enough. Lyx is being tested. I miss not having CoolEdit on SuSE 8.x because it did such nice text preparation for input to VariCAD (drafting package).

Cooledit is available, http://cooledit.sourceforge.net/

Yep, got cooledit-3.17.7.tar.gz

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./configure OK ./make OK [as root] checkinstall can't get this to go ...

"can't get this to go" doesn't indicate much. It's like saying your car won't go ???? What errors do you get? What is the output of (as root) :# which checkinstall Did you get any errors during configure or make? I have SuSE 8.1 and followed the above procedure and had no errors. pat@wahoo:~> cooledit --version Cooledit version 3.17.7 -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org

Jerome Lyles

17 Jul 17 Jul

06:45

New subject: [SLE] abiword can't find dictionary inSuSE 8.2

On Wednesday 16 July 2003 02:22, James Ogley wrote:

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When I try to run the spellchecker with abiword 1.0.4, I get a message saying it can't find a dictionary. I have ispell installed, so there should be a dictionary installed.

In AbiWord 1.0.x, you need abispell, which you can get from http://sf.net/projects/abiword

Alternatively, you could upgrade to the 2.0 beta (1.99.2 is the latest) from www.usr-local-bin.org/abiword.php - it's pretty rock-solid for me, and introduces a whole raft of features not in 1.0 such as tables.

Sometimes it's so difficult to do what should be very simple to do. Each time this happens you can waste hours and still fail. Then you ask for help-which sometimes you get and sometimes you don't. I love Linux but simple things should not be so hard to do! I downloaded the latest abiword, but I couldn't get Yast to point to the abiword rpm on my hard drive as the source. It would only point to drives or directories. So I tried rpm -U 'abiword package' which didn't work because of a failed dependency: libfribidi.so.0 is needed by abiword-1.99.2. I do a google search and come up with fribidi-0.10.4.tar.gz from fribidi.sourceforge.net which I installed. Still I get the same dependency error. So here I am two and a half hours later asking for help from the mailing list to do something that should be very simple to do-instead of enjoying my updated copy of abiword. How do I get Yast to load rpms that are on my hard drive? How do I resolve the libfribidi.so.0 dependency? Thanks, Jerome

James Ogley

09:54

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So I tried rpm -U 'abiword package' which didn't work because of a failed dependency: libfribidi.so.0 is needed by abiword-1.99.2. I do a google search and come up with fribidi-0.10.4.tar.gz from fribidi.sourceforge.net which I installed. Still I get the same dependency error.

Quoting from the AbiWord page on usr-local-bin.org "The package is dependant on fribidi which can be found on the SuSE CDs or FTP server." Installing it from source won't sort out RPM's dependencies, as RPM knows nothing about anything not installed by RPM.

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How do I get Yast to load rpms that are on my hard drive?

yast -i package.rpm

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How do I resolve the libfribidi.so.0 dependency?

Install fribidi off the CDs -- James Ogley, Webmaster, Rubber Turnip james@rubberturnip.org.uk http://www.rubberturnip.org.uk Jabber: riggwelter@myjabber.net Using Free Software since 1994, running GNU/Linux (SuSE 8.2) GNOME updates for SuSE: http://www.usr-local-bin.org

Jerome Lyles

17:08

New subject: [SLE] abiword can't find dictionary inSuSE 8.2

On Thursday 17 July 2003 02:54, James Ogley wrote:

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Quoting from the AbiWord page on usr-local-bin.org

"The package is dependant on fribidi which can be found on the SuSE CDs or FTP server."

Thanks for pointing this quote out to me.

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Installing it from source won't sort out RPM's dependencies, as RPM knows nothing about anything not installed by RPM.

I'll remember this.

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How do I get Yast to load rpms that are on my hard drive?

yast -i package.rpm

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How do I resolve the libfribidi.so.0 dependency?

Install fribidi off the CDs

Everything is installed, thank you. I also downloaded apt package so I can learn to use it. Thanks again, Jerome

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