Friday, June 6, 2008

Opera spellcheck in OpenSolaris

Opera will use your gnu aspell install if you have one to implement spell checking. I seem to be having some problems with my aspell package install however.
So, "pfexec pkg install SUNWaspell SUNWaspell-en" seems to finish, but I don't see any aspell libraries installed anywhere. Hmmm. broken package maybe? I guess I don't know enough to suggest a broken package, I just don't see any results from installing this.

So, switch gears to blastwave:
pfexec pkg-get install aspell aspellen

now i have my aspell libraries under /opt/csw/libaspell*

So, lets link them under /usr/lib so that Opera and others can find them:
ln -s /opt/csw/libspell* /usr/lib/

Open Opera...ahh, we have spell check.

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