Where is the spelling dictionary ?

Ralf Mardorf ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net
Tue Sep 29 00:17:42 CEST 2015


On Tue, 29 Sep 2015 00:13:00 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>On Mon, 28 Sep 2015 23:21:05 +0200, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
>>Which spell check you use depends entirely on your email client. E.g.
>>claws-mail uses aspell.
>
>It's a dependency chain. Claws needs aspell, respl. Claws from upstream
>has got a hard dependency on enchant. Enchant has got a hard dependency
>on aspell and others. Assumed the OP is using Claws, then most likely
>the needed spell checker already is installed. Most likely a dictionary
>is missing.
>
>I usually install hunspell-en, hunspell-de, aspell-en and aspell-de.
>
>The OP most likely needs to install aspell-en, since "plain" seems to
>be an English word. For Debian/Ubuntu and Arch the package is named
>aspell-en, this might be different for other distros or operating
>systems.

PS: My Claws seemingly uses hunspell, since there was an issue with
hunspell:
http://lists.claws-mail.org/pipermail/users/2015-May/013062.html


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