[Users] Missing spell checker [Claws Mail, enchant, aspell, CentOS 6.5]

[Charles A Edwards]

On Wed, 9 Jul 2014 13:42:57 -0400 (EDT)
1 at victoriasjourney.com wrote:

> vstuart:$ which enchant
> /usr/bin/enchant
> 
> I meant to add that another version of enchant was previously
> installed at the root location shown above.  If I can configure Claws
> Mail (spell checker) to work using either enchant binary (or other
> solution), that would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> 
> 
> > On July 9, 2014 at 1:36 PM "1 at victoriasjourney.com"
> > <1 at victoriasjourney.com> wrote:
> > 
> >  Claws Mail 3.10.1 compiled from binary on amd 64-bit  CentOS 6.5
> > Final linux system.
> > 
> >  I installed Claws Mail binary, and enchant and aspell (+ English
> > dictionary), all in my local ($HOME ; i.e. ~/) directories, as I do
> > not have root access (corporate environment).
> > 
> >  Claws (configured for IMAP4) runs well, BUT I cannot get the spell
> > checker to install (like I do at home).  Under
> > Configuration:Preferences:Compose there are only the {Writing |
> > Templates | Wrapping} panels


Do you have enchant-devel installed?
If not claws will not build with "spell check" enabled.

Another possibility, I am not that familiar with CentOS, but have they,
as have many other distros, switched to hunspell instead of aspell? 


     Charles

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