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Bug 131512

Summary: Aspell cannot be used from KDE apps if aspell-en is not emerged
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Patrick ALLAERT <patrickallaert>
Component: [OLD] KDEAssignee: Gentoo KDE team <kde>
Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM    
Severity: normal CC: gentoo2
Priority: High    
Version: 2006.0   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Description Patrick ALLAERT 2006-04-27 14:07:43 UTC
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Comment 1 Patrick ALLAERT 2006-04-27 14:07:43 UTC
1° emerge aspell aspell-fr
2° set-up spell checking in control center to use aspell [1]
3° launch a kde application (kate, kedit,...) and try to use the spell checker:

"aspell could not be starded

Please make sure you have aspell properly configured and in your PATH."

4° emerge aspell-en
5° retry step 3° and it works!

My KDE is configured in french in the control center and aspell and aspell-fr are installed, spell checking in KDE apps should not require aspell-en to work.

Maybe "ASpell default" is "English" but then, control center should provide a way to select installed languages. I don't have the choice to use something other than "ASpell default"

[1] Dictionnary: ASpell default, Encoding: UTF-8, Client: Aspell

Don't think my emerge --info is interesting, if you need it, just ask me
Comment 2 Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-05-06 05:23:14 UTC
Testing the spell checkers I ran into nice crashes but your problem is not reroducible for me using e.g. aspell-de or aspell-de and aspell-fr. Having solely aspell-fr installed I can reproduce your problem. As this is a problem with aspell-da and probably others, too, I'll add aspell-en as dependency, but please don't miss to report the problem at https://bugs.kde.org as it needs to be fixed there.
Comment 3 Michael Schilling 2007-01-04 00:59:37 UTC
The aspell-en dependencies was the reason for an aspell block I got during emerge -uvD world. The aspell-en wanted the old aspell-0.5* and didn't fit to the aspell-0.6.
After I removed the aspell-en dependency in the ebuild everything worked fine again.

So you traded one problem for another ;-)