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ectospasm

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Registered: 2015-08-28

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[SOLVED] weechat spell check now requires enchant

After a recent upgrade to weechat 3.8-3, spell checking stopped working.  The specific error when trying to load the spell plugin (/plugin load spell, in weechat) was: 

Unable to load plugin "/usr/lib/weechat/plugins/spell.o": cannot open shared object file: libenchant-2.so.2 No such file or directory

The spell plugin now requires the enchant package, which is an optional dependency of the weechat package.  I already had the aspell package installed, which is also an optional dependency of weechat.

Last edited by ectospasm (2023-06-17 15:30:31)

ectospasm

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Registered: 2015-08-28

Posts: 303

Re: [SOLVED] weechat spell check now requires enchant

Apparently I missed this notice when weechat was being upgraded:

:: Processing package changes...
(1/1) upgrading weechat
New optional dependencies for weechat
enchant: spellchecker support

Since I normally upgrade everything at once (trying to avoid partial upgrades, which are not supported), I missed this detail.  I'm not in the habit of watching the output of the upgrade, and this requirement is rather subtle.  Even if I saw it I might not have known enchant was required for spell check to work.

Last edited by ectospasm (2023-06-19 12:52:35)