Am 27.05.2015 um 14:10 schrieb Wolfgang Engelmann <engelm...@uni-tuebingen.de>:

> 
> 
> Am 27.05.2015 um 11:28 schrieb Stephan Witt:
>> Am 27.05.2015 um 11:21 schrieb Scott Kostyshak <skost...@lyx.org>
>> :
>> 
>> 
>>> On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 4:43 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann
>>> 
>>> <engelm...@uni-tuebingen.de>
>>>  wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I installed hunspell but can't select it in lyx tools>settings>language
>>>> settings>spellchecker
>>>> (writing is not possible). I did reconfigure. enchant is also installed.
>>>> I am using Kubuntu and Lyx 2.1.3
>>>> Wolfgang
>>>> 
>>> What do you have under Tools > Preferences > Paths > Hunspell?
>>> 
>>> In my opinion we should automatically fill that in (e.g. LyX should
>>> try to find the Hunspell libraries).
>>> See also:
>>> 
>>> https://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org/msg184250.html
>> I think this is another topic.
>> 
>> If hunspell is not enabled in settings->spellchecker LyX is compiled
>> without it. The location of the dictionaries doesn't matter, IMO.
>> 
>> Stephan
>> 
> Thanks to all three of you. I am answering to the three messages.
> The paths allow to search for the Thesaurus,

The code to implement thesaurus support is always part of LyX. 

> but the Hunspell search box is greyed out and I can'write into it. 

The hunspell dictionary path input field is enabled if and only if
the code of the hunspell engine is part of LyX. This is a decision
of the LyX packager. It looks like the LyX package you're using is
built without any spell checker support.


> content of Help > About > Build Info:
> 
> LyX 2.1.3 (2015-02-05)
> Erstellt am Feb 12 2015, 11:01:23
> Configuration
> Host type: i686-pc-linux-gnu
> Special build flags: build=release

use-hunspell is missing here.
use-enchant is missing too!

Stephan

> C++ Compiler: g++ (4.8)
> C++ Compiler LyX flags:
> C++ Compiler flags: -O2
> Linker flags:
> Linker user flags:
> Qt 4 Frontend:
> Qt 4 version: 4.8.6
> Packaging: posix
> LyX binary dir: /usr/local/bin
> LyX files dir: /usr/local/share/lyx
> 
> 
> Did you install LyX from the PPA or from the Ubuntu repos?
> 
> If I remember correctly (Alzheimer light...) the latter. 
> 
> If hunspell is not enabled in settings->spellchecker LyX is compiled
> without it. The location of the dictionaries doesn't matter, IMO.
> 
> as I mentioned I can't enter the path 
> 
> Wolfgang


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