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JamieKitson

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[Solved] Pidgin + Aspell not working automatically

Hi,

the documentation on getting spell checking working in Pidgin is pretty sparse, leading me to think that once it's all installed it should work automatically. I've installed pidgin, aspell and aspell-en and misspellings were not marked. I've installed purple-plugin-pack for switch spell in desperation but that didn't help either. Is there any setup I need to do, or debugging I can do to sort this out?

Thanks, Jamie

Last edited by JamieKitson (2014-01-05 14:03:06)

JamieKitson

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From: UK

Registered: 2010-10-18

Posts: 161

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Re: [Solved] Pidgin + Aspell not working automatically

For anyone having this problem I recommend testing aspell separately. Doing this I found that I the dictionary I had installed didn't match my locale and so aspell was throwing an error.

echo center | aspell -a