Am 20.01.2011 um 18:33 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: > On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 18:03 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: >> Am 20.01.2011 um 17:56 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: >> >>> I'm a tad befuddled over this one... I suddenly discovered that I have >>> no spellchecker, with either the system current version of LyX (1.6.7) >>> or 2.0-b3 (I trade out ~/.lyx directories). I'm running Debian/Sid. >>> >>> I have both ispell and aspell installed. I've reconfigured LyX several >>> times to no avail. I cannot change anything under Preferences > >>> Spellchecker... the Spellchecker engine menu is greyed out. >>> >>> Changing language settings to English instead of Automatic, followed by >>> restarting, reconfiguring, and restarting has no effect. >>> >>> :(( >>> >>> Is there something really basic here that I don't see?? >> >> Did you build LyX yourself? >> If yes, how? And did you enable the spellchecker engines? > > > I built the beta version myself and installed it using whatever defaults > came with it. If spellchecking needs to be enabled, then it seems this > ought to be a default instead of an option.
You did not tell me, how you build it. Nevertheless, please check you have all needed software packages for developers installed. In case you built it with autotools and configure you may want to check the logs. > The other LyX version is a Debian package. I'm pretty certain that > would be built with the spellchecking turned on, as it makes no sense to > not enable that for the masses... I cannot judge the debian build. I don't have it. But surely sometimes things making no sense happen. Regards, Stephan
