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Stinky

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From: The Colony, TX

Registered: 2004-05-28

Posts: 187

Spell check in Evolution

Hey guys.  I feel like I'm banging my head against the wall here so maybe somebody has some suggestions.  I'm trying to get spell check working in Evolution.  When I go to >>>Composer Preferences>>>Spell Checking, there are no dictionaries available. 
I have installed gnome-spell, aspell, aspell-en, and ispell.
I think I have it narrowed down to a probable permissions problem because when I launch evolution as root, I have the dictionaries that are supposed to be there to choose from.  Otherwise, it's possibly a configuration problem.  Either way, I don't really know where to begin to look.  Anybody have any ideas?

glenntanner3

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Registered: 2014-12-17

Posts: 3

Re: Spell check in Evolution

This worked for me:

Have you installed an aspell dictionary? Use pacman -Ss aspell to see available dictionaries for downloading.
If installing the dictionary files did not resolve the problem, it is most likely a problem with enchant. Check for known dictionary files:
$ aspell dicts
en
en_US
...etc

If your respective language dictionary is listed, add it to /usr/share/enchant/enchant.ordering. From the above example, it would be:
en_US:aspell

Restart application using spell checking

Configure application to use new dictionary

Reference

zman0900

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From: Columbus, OH, US

Registered: 2013-12-07

Posts: 1

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Re: Spell check in Evolution

Necro post saves the day.  I had a similar problem where Evolution only had Hebrew as an option.  Installing aspell-en fixed it, but I have no idea where the Hebrew option came from.  aspell dicts doesn't have that. 

Fixed your link: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/FA … correct.21