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