On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 23:39 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: > Am 20.01.2011 um 19:39 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: > > > On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 19:33 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: > >> 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 found un > >>> > >>> 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 build ran fine after autoconfig was used. I glanced through the > > output, and seeing nothing odd ran make and then make install. All per > > the quick directions. > > I take it you called ./configure in top directory of source tree... > > The relevant output here is like > > ... > checking aspell.h usability... yes > checking aspell.h presence... yes > checking for aspell.h... yes > checking for new_aspell_config in -laspell... yes > checking whether to use aspell... yes > checking for ENCHANT... yes > checking whether to use enchant... yes > checking hunspell/hunspell.hxx usability... no > checking hunspell/hunspell.hxx presence... no > checking for hunspell/hunspell.hxx... no > checking for main in -lhunspell... no > checking whether to use hunspell... no > ... > > You can see I don't have any spell checker library code installed. > That's why hunspell is left not available. > > Please post the relevant output of your configure run for comparison.
I didn't have this available since it was built in /tmp a few weeks ago. I pulled in the Lyx code again, installed the aspell *dev package (which was not installed), recompiled, and now things work. Browsing through all the documentation pulled up the information as well that the dev package was required. I think I'll file this as a bug under LyX with Debian... For average users, I'd think this is an item expected to be there. I just saw Paul's note as well (apparently he had the same problem). Thank you very much for your patience and help, Stephan! Kenward -- Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you that mine are still greater. Albert Einstein
