lyx spellchecker does not work

[Robin Sheat]

Binary package hint: lyx

If you press F7, click the toolbar button, or go through the menu nothing happens. By nothing, I mean it puts a message in the status bar saying it's going to open the spell checker dialogue. However that is all, no dialogue actually opens.

In the prefs I'm using aspell with en_GB as the alternative language. If I change it to ispell (not installed) I get an error, so it is trying something. If I remove the alternative language, there is no change in symptoms.

Architecture: i386
Version: 1.5.6-0ubuntu1

[Mark Jovalekic (m-jovalekic)]

I can confirm this in Ubuntu 9.04 too with LyX 1.6.2.
The spellchecker (german) behaves strangely and basically isn't working.
I'm going to investigate this further.

[ghostgrrl (krthorne27)]

I'm using LyX 1.6.4 in Mint 8 Helena, and mine got 25% through the document, then popped up an error that said, "The spellchecker has failed. No word lists can be found for the language de_DE."

My default (and only) language is set for English.

This error occurred after running the abovementioned quarter of the document and adding a number of terms to the dictionary, though a number of terms did not add but instead kept coming up as misspellings.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Mark Jovalekic (m-jovalekic)]

As the bug is very old and we're alt LyX >2.0 this bug should be closed.
Anyway it's working now.