[Users] spell checker -- how to enable?

[Gil Weber]

Brad, I really must be having a brain freeze.

I can launch Claws-Mail by clicking on the icon in my Mint 19.0 launch
menu, or on an icon I placed on the taskbar. But I cannot launch
it from the command line. I am told the following: 

Command 'claws-mail' not found, but can be installed with:
sudo apt install claws-mail

So I cannot append --debug to the end of anything.  :o( 

When I check the Mint 19.0 package manager it also tells me that
Claws-Mail is **not** installed. I do not understand how it's not
installed yet clearly it is.

I also do see that Enchant is **not** marked where you told me to look.
However the package manager tells me it (supposedly) is installed. But
it won't launch from there. And Enchant does not appear in the Mint
launch menu. 

So maybe I need to understand why I can launch Claws-Mail from the Mint
launch menu but not launch it from a command line. And maybe that will
lead to a reason why I cannot launch Enchant. And maybe that will then
lead to finding a spell checker.

Gads, this should be so simple yet I am really thrown for a loop by the
strangeness that Claws-Mail does launch yet the package manager tells
me it's not installed.

Thanks for your patience on this one.  "For I am a bear of very little brain..." Winnie the Pooh 
Gil


On Sat, 18 Jul 2020 23:07:25 +0100
Brad Rogers <brad at fineby.me.uk> wrote:

> On Sat, 18 Jul 2020 16:06:32 -0400
> Gil Weber <gilweber at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello Gil,
> 
> >It's working fine except that I seem to have lost the spell checker.
> >(At  
> 
> Let's start with the easy stuff;
> 
> To see if spell checking is (or isn't) even possible, look at Help
> menu, About then Features.  Enchant should be ticked.
> 
> If Enchant is _not_ marked, then install the enchant package through
> your package manager.  Probably restart Claws.
> 
> If Enchant is enabled, then shutting Claws down and starting it from
> the command line with --debug might shed some light as to what's
> missing.
>