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Topic: word processing, abiword, is there any other word process

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roberts

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Posted: Sep. 15 2007,21:35

Debian recently changed repositories, stable then is now, Sept 2007 is now oldstable.

Try oldstable for both aspell and libenchant1

yangmusa

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Posted: Sep. 15 2007,22:00

Thanks. I'm getting somewhere, but need a little more handholding..

I made apt active.

Tried: sudo apt-get install oldstable aspell
Result: can't find package oldstable

Ok, I was doing something wrong, so I did a little search and read apt-get docs. I edited the source.list file and commented out the current version and uncommented the oldstable entry.

Tried again: sudo apt-get install aspell
Result:

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Package aspell has no available version, but exists in the database. This typically means the package was mentioned in a dependency and never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents of sources.list

I noticed sources.list has several oldstable entries - can I safely uncomment more than one at a time? Where should I go from here?

yangmusa

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Posted: Sep. 15 2007,23:05

The complete and utter beginner's guide to spellchecking in Abiword...

1) enable apt-get
2) edit /etc/apt/sources.list comment out (with #) the stable entries, remove comment (#) from oldstable entries.
3) sudo apt-get upgrade #to update the package lists so apt-get knows what is available.
4) sudo apt-get install aspell
5) sudo apt-get install libenchant1

Hooray, you're done! It works!

Now to see if the changes persist.. I have persistent /home and persistent /opt. That should hopefully cover it? The various packages seem to be installed in several directories under /KNOPPIX - which I don't think is persistent?

roberts

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Posted: Sep. 15 2007,23:25

Your number 3 need to be:

apt-get update

apt-get upgrade is something else and usually will break the system.

For persistentancy you might want to check out deb2dsl which get loaded when you enable apt in DSL. The deb2dsl script will make a .dsl extension from .deb(s)

Would be nice to have a volunteer to update the abiword.dsl extension with working spell checking by adding these additional files.

Edited by roberts on Sep. 15 2007,23:31

yangmusa

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Posted: Sep. 16 2007,02:23

thanks for all the help, roberts! Everything now works, and it's persistent too..

So, the corrected guide for complete beginners:

1) enable apt-get
2) edit /etc/apt/sources.list comment out (with #) the stable entries, remove comment (#) from oldstable entries.
3) sudo apt-get update #to update the package lists so apt-get knows what is available.
4) sudo apt-get install aspell
5) sudo apt-get install libenchant1

If you want dictionaries other than English, now would be the time to work out where they go & install them.

Then, to get persistence:
1) which aspell # tells you where aspell is installed, needed for 2).
2) run: deb2dsl aspell # will create a .dsl of the spellchecker.

That's it. Copy the .dsl to wherever you keep your persistent .dsl packages.

Roberts - do you want me to email you the .dsl, to add to the MyDSL repository? Might help out someone else, at least if they want English..

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