Help the hopeless with spellcheck

[Clutch51]

@happydemic

I’m hesitant to say anything here as I’m not a crouton user, but until someone wiser comes along…

I realise I’m covering things you alluded to in your post, but to start somewhere:

1. You mention ‘multiple’ libaspell libraries. Do you have libaspell-dev installed? sudo apt-get install libaspell-dev

2. You mention installing dictionaries. Is your system language US English? If not, you may need to do some tweaking so libaspell can find the correct dictionary. Until then, the spell check engine could function but without finding any spelling errors.

3. You mention blowing up the installation, and I notice you linked to a thread explaining how to install from .tar. Did you install Scrivener from .tar or from .deb? If you used the .tar and then made further changes in the terminal, then I suppose it might be quicker to reinstall than to diagnose whether you borked something. If you do want to reinstall from .deb, I expect you’ve seen the guide here writewithwarnimont.com/scriv … sing-linux .

Thanks so much for the reply!

1. Yes, I installed libaspell-dev and libaspell15.
2. Yes, sorry I forgot to specify, system language is US English. I do have the “English (United States)” dictionary selected in the Scrivener Corrections settings.
3. I did install Scrivener using the .deb. And yes I did use the guide that you have linked to.

I notice in edf’s post ([url]A Mostly Complete Guide to Installing Scrivener on Linux]) the paths for Scrivener look like /usr/local/LiteratureAndLatte/lib but on my system it is /usr/share/scrivener/lib – did I somehow install Scrivener in the wrong place?