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bredin

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From: sweden

Registered: 2008-06-28

Posts: 135

School is comming up. Swedish spellcheck in abiword?

Hello. Within a month I'm back in school. And I need to know how to get swedish spellning in abiword under arch.

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vogt

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From: Toronto, Canada

Registered: 2006-11-25

Posts: 389

Re: School is comming up. Swedish spellcheck in abiword?

aur has aspell-sv, enchant (abiword's spell checking framework) needs aspell, so I presume that it would use that dictionary, but maybe abiword needs to be told somewhere to use that language...

aspell-en might fix some of your spellning too!

bredin

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From: sweden

Registered: 2008-06-28

Posts: 135

Re: School is comming up. Swedish spellcheck in abiword?

Then I need to download that aspell-sv pack from aur. Just searched the pacman.

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bredin

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From: sweden

Registered: 2008-06-28

Posts: 135

Re: School is comming up. Swedish spellcheck in abiword?

So I downloaded the package and tried to install it with

sudo pacman -U /home/bredin/aspell-sv-0.51-0.tar.bz2

Then I got this error:

error: missing package metadata in /home/bredin/aspell-sv-0.51-0.tar.bz2
error '/home/bredin/aspell-sv-0.51-0.tar.bz2' : invalid or corrupted package

And same error when I try to download it with :

sudo  pacman -U ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/dict/sv/aspell-sv-0.51-0.tar.bz2

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skottish

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From: Here

Registered: 2006-06-16

Posts: 7,942

Re: School is comming up. Swedish spellcheck in abiword?

So I downloaded the package and tried to install it with

sudo pacman -U /home/bredin/aspell-sv-0.51-0.tar.bz2

Then I got this error:

error: missing package metadata in /home/bredin/aspell-sv-0.51-0.tar.bz2
error '/home/bredin/aspell-sv-0.51-0.tar.bz2' : invalid or corrupted package

And same error when I try to download it with :

sudo  pacman -U ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/dict/sv/aspell-sv-0.51-0.tar.bz2

pacman needs pacman packages and you're trying to install the source. On your left in the middle of the page there is a link called 'tarball'. Download that and extract it. Go into the newly created directory and run 'makepkg'. When it's done, use pacman to install the .pkg.tar.gz file that it creates.

KimTjik

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2007-08-22

Posts: 715

Re: School is comming up. Swedish spellcheck in abiword?

aspell is used by other applications as well, like Pidgin for example. It would be nice if these uncomplicated and small packages could be installed with an easy pacman -S. On the other hand compiling it with makepkg takes only a few seconds.

In case you didn't see the instruction link in AUR: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_User_Guidelines

bredin

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From: sweden

Registered: 2008-06-28

Posts: 135

Re: School is comming up. Swedish spellcheck in abiword?

Tanks. I got it working after some testing.. :3 nubcake here,

Last edited by bredin (2008-08-07 20:35:25)

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loosec

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Registered: 2007-03-08

Posts: 134

Re: School is comming up. Swedish spellcheck in abiword?

Aha, I'm definitely getting this! Thanks for the tip.

[vEX]

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2006-11-23

Posts: 450

Re: School is comming up. Swedish spellcheck in abiword?

Last time I checked the Swedish aspell dictionary it was really horrible specially as it wanted things to be "särskrivna" which is not how the Swedish langauge works.

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KimTjik

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2007-08-22

Posts: 715

Re: School is comming up. Swedish spellcheck in abiword?

Yes that's unfortunate, but many dictionaries suffer from this flaw of separating combined words. The one that installs with Firefox has improved though, but still it teach too many to write Swedish the "English" way. Unfortunately (the second one in only three sentences) many get unsure about spelling and hence adopt this habit of "särskrivning".

JGC

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Registered: 2003-12-03

Posts: 1,664

Re: School is comming up. Swedish spellcheck in abiword?

enchant can also work with hunspell dictionaries. You'll have to install them in /usr/share/myspell/dicts/ then. Both firefox and openoffice.org use hunspell dictionaries.