No English Dictionary in AbiWord

**rdbe** · 02-18-2003, 07:59 PM

How do I get and install the English dictionary for the Abiword that came with the Jan. release of Knoppix?

Thanks for the help.

David

**xetaprime** · 02-18-2003, 08:03 PM

That "dictionary" thing was really bugging me. So I downloaded abiword 1.0.4 source and installed it with make, then make install. And no more problems. First had to remove the other abiword.

**rdbe** · 02-18-2003, 08:35 PM

I am pretty much a newbie. So how did you uninstall the Abiword that came with the Jan. distribution, download and install the 1.04 version since I only saw RPM packages??

Thanks David
rdbe718@yahoo.com

**Stephen** · 02-19-2003, 08:27 AM

As root in a console (apt-get remove abiword) then still as root (alien -i abiword.rpm) will to convert the .rpm to a .deb and then install it automatically.

**rdbe** · 02-19-2003, 11:41 AM

Thanks so very much. You are a tremendous help!

David

**RockMumbles** · 02-19-2003, 03:42 PM

If you are running a HD install and want to fix your existing AbiWord, use apt-get to install aspell and the necessary aspell dictionary such as aspell-en, then the abiword dictionary will work.

HTH

rock