[Users] spell checker -- how to enable?

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sun, 2020-07-19 at 18:34 -0400, Gil Weber wrote:
> /usr/bin/flatpak

...it is installed by a flatpak. Snaps, flatpaks and
similar abnormalities are sandboxing the software that is installed and
this is asking for trouble at all levels.

Now that Linux development introduce more and more of those bad ideas
and cares more about inclusive language, than standards and sane
software solutions, the time might has come to migrate to BSD, if
the application field allows this migration.

Remove claws installed by a flatpack and install it from official
repositories, that provide deb packages.

If you want a newer release, you could also build a claws package, e.g.
like this:

git clone git://git.claws-mail.org/claws.git
cd claws/

#git checkout c80659f56b61c9c2f28440bcecac757b31e6bb41  #for release
3.17.5
git checkout f5489877c862f924eced1ae9a2acbcf5206ccf36   #for release
3.17.6

make clean

./autogen.sh

./configure --build=$HOSTTYPE-ubuntu-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr --disable-
static --enable-enchant --enable-gnutls --enable-ldap --enable-crash-
dialog --enable-pgpmime-plugin --enable-spamassassin-plugin --enable-
bogofilter-plugin

sh version

make

sudo checkinstall

Follow the instructions given by checkinstall:

0 -  Maintainer: [ Gil <gilweber at gmail.com> ]
1 -  Summary: [ A GTK+ based e-mail client - git checkout ]
2 -  Name:    [ claws-mail-git ]
3 -  Version: [ 3.17.6 ]
4 -  Release: [ 1 ]
5 -  License: [ GPL3 ]
6 -  Group:   [ checkinstall ]
7 -  Architecture: [ amd64 ]
8 -  Source location: [ claws ]
9 -  Alternate source location: [  ]
10 - Requires: [  ]
11 - Provides: [ claws-mail ]
12 - Conflicts: [  ]
13 - Replaces: [  ]

To do it this way you first need to install all development packages and
you need to install all runtime dependencies of the claws-mail package
and all of the other packages it is split by the Debian/Ubuntu policy,
see https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/claws-mail . Alternatively you could
build the split packages the Debian/Ubuntu way, using the existing
package source by editing it or install via "make install" without
building a package at all.