Spell Checking in Arch Linux
 

I noticed that in Arch Linux there is no spell checking (like, for example, the wavy red lines under words while writing this post). Is there some package I have to install?

Works fine here. But I don't remember if it was working before I updated my system yesterday. Give it a shot with an up-to-date mirror. What browser are you using?

Firefox "Shiretoko"

"Namoroka" over here. Try an update.

Shiretoko is what's and the Arch repo.

I don't exactly know why I'm trying to convince you. Anyway:

Tschuss.

http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/firefox/
Use a mirror that is up-to-date, KTHNX.

But that says i686, I have x86_64.

And are you really supposed to somehow change the repo?

I just got a littile confused. Anyway, so you're saying my arch repo mirror is out of date? How do I choose one? I chose them right after installation using that special script that finds the fastest ones like described in the Arch Wiki Beginners Guide.

Spell checking works fine on my arch machine.

Have you tried:
It's going to force a reload of all packages even if they are supposed to be up to date...

Did you install any spell-checking packages, or did it yust work from the start?

And I wonder if a spell checker comes with GNOME and KDE, maybe that's why it seems to work for others (I don't use GNOME or KDE).

EDIT: it seems like I do have aspell installed.

I don't remember what I did exactly. The only dictionary I have is ispell. And my version of Firefox is 3.6.2 : A very recent upgrade (Monday or Tuesday).
Have you tried pacman -Syu firefox to upgrade ? If you cannot find the 3.6.2 version, one of your repositories must be out of sync.

Frankly I'm quite new with Arch. For my daily work, I use Ubuntu. I really enjoy Arch but I use it mainly for pleasant experimentation. It allows me to test the latest software : Firefox 3.6 is really faster than 3.5 ...

I installed ispell (which I didn't have) and there still isn't any spell checking in this box where I'm typing the post.

pacman -Syu firefox didn't do anything.

I still wonder why I don't get Firefox 3.6?

http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/firefox/

I use DWM and I've not installed any spelling-related packages by hand. `pacman -Qs spell` only indicates 'hunspell' which was installed as a dependency of xulrunner, which, in turn, is a dependency of firefox.

You can change the mirror by editing /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.

You can check out https://users.archlinux.de/~gerbra/mirrorcheck.html to see the status of the various mirrors.


Edit: Just curious about something. In firefox: Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced -> General -> Browsing -> Check my spelling as I type (is it checked? do you even have it?)

I checked and I do have hunspell installed.

I will check that out soon.

I have it and it was checked. I was actually wondering if Firefox had some setting for this.

I made mirrorlist contain one mirror, which wasn't listed more than a day old on your link, but still nothing.

EDIT: I re-ran the rankmirrors script to return back to normal. The only out-of-date package was "glib2".

Today I ran pacman -Syu again, and got a HUGE amount of updates (about 2 pages worth on my terminal), including Firefox 3.6!

I'll see what happens...

I have the latest Firefox and spell checking works now!

Cool 8)
Maybe you should deactivate your first mirror. Or rerun the python script 'rankmirrors'. There is also the site https://users.archlinux.de/~gerbra/mirrorcheck.html
Once I had problems with my top mirror (the mirror is now OK)... This kind of things can put you in trouble - although in the end everything got corrected. The danger of a rolling release system I guess.

I hope you appreciate Firefox 3.6...

I think I already tried a lot of those things.

Seems to work good for now. At least the spell checking works now and I don't make so many typos in my posts!

I quit using a desktop environment (Xfce) in favor of a window manager, and spell checking is gone again!

I wonder why?