Not able to spellcheck in RC4 under Linux

Jean-Marc Lasgouttes lasgouttes at lyx.org
Thu Apr 18 15:22:30 UTC 2024


Le 18/04/2024 à 16:59, Christopher Menzel a écrit :
>> Maybe you need enchant (default on debian), it uses different spell 
>> checkers.
>>
> Thank you for the suggestion. I finally got the bright idea of looking 
> through the configure script for relevant flags and found 
> “--with-included-hunspell”. Apparently, by default the script looks for 
> an installed version of hunspell instead of using the version that’s 
> included in the distribution and, for some reason, it wasn’t able to 
> find my installed version of hunspell. But configuring with the above 
> flag did the trick. My document is now nicely littered with wavy red 
> underlines (as desired!). :-)

Hi,

To compile with support for the installed hunspell, you need to install 
the libhunspell-dev package.

JMarc




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