Bug 73414 – app-office/abiword-2.0.10 unable to load US-en dictionary

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description postmodern 2004-12-05 00:38:53 UTC]

pp-office/abiword-2.0.10 unable to load US-en dictionary which inturns makes auto-spell check completely useless.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. run abiword
2. type anything plus a space
3.

Actual Results:  
error message stating that the US-en dictionary file could not be loaded.

Expected Results:  
no error message and auto-spell checker to check the text correctly.

Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.90.0.1.1-r3
Headers:  sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1-r1
Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r7
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-pipe -O3 -march=k8"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER=""
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config
/var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-pipe -O3 -march=k8"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="amd64 X acpi alsa berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt encode esd f77 fam flac
fortran gif gpm gtk gtk2 imlib ipv6 java jp2 jpeg lzw lzw-tiff mozilla multilib
ncurses network nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam perl png python readline samba
speex sqlite ssl tcpd theora tiff truetype usb userlocales xml xml2 xmms xpm
xrandr xv zlib"

[Comment 1 Dietrich Moerman 2004-12-05 03:24:00 UTC]

I guess you need to install aspell and the English dictionary aspell-en. Correct me if I'm wrong.

# emerge aspell aspell-en

[Comment 2 postmodern 2004-12-05 03:28:56 UTC]

emerged aspell and aspell-en, problem persists.

[Comment 3 foser (RETIRED) 2004-12-06 09:45:34 UTC]

did you have aspell installed at all at that point ?

[Comment 4 postmodern 2004-12-06 19:01:41 UTC]

I re-emerged abiword after having emerged aspell and aspell-en and that has fixed this issue. Might want to include aspell/aspell-$LANGUAGE in the RDEPEND of abiword, if it is not already there in the portage-cvs.

[Comment 5 foser (RETIRED) 2004-12-07 02:53:06 UTC]

those are implied trough enchant.

closing not-a-bug

[Comment 6 postmodern 2004-12-07 11:57:09 UTC]

Just to clarify enchant isn't emerged as well. What do you mean "implied" if abiword did not emerge aspell, aspell-en or enchat? Is this not a DEP bug?

[Comment 7 foser (RETIRED) 2004-12-07 13:03:27 UTC]

no it's not.. don't reopen without proof, we know what we're doing here.

You _do_ need spell in USE to get spellchecking in abiword.. this is NOT a bug.