[Pkg-lyx-devel] Bug#187816: lyx: Alternative solution for English dialect dictionary problem

[Rakesh 'arky' Ambati]

Package: lyx
Followup-For: Bug #187816

Creating a symbolic link to default.hash should solve this problem.But its always good to that since it doesn't matter which dialect of english you use.

Have a look at the layout of symlinks on my GNU/Debian Linux system.
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lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      37 Nov 15 11:34 default.hash -> /etc/dictionaries-common/default.hash
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      28 Nov 25 14:13 english.hash -> /usr/lib/ispell/default.hash
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 29 Nov 25 14:12 /etc/dictionaries-common/default.hash -> /usr/lib/ispell/american.hash
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Running a single command thus should solve the problem.(as root or sudo or su)
    
$ ln -s /usr/lib/ispell/default.hash /usr/lib/ispell/english.hash

This method really worked for me and I belive this a quite neat.If you are have a better one please kindly let me know.

Using lyx(qt) verion 

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LyX 1.3.4 of Thu, Feb 19, 2004
Built on Jul 25 2004, 14:57:18
Configuration
  Host type:                      i686-pc-linux-gnu
  Special build flags:            warnings assertions
  C   Compiler:                   gcc
  C   Compiler flags:             -g -O2
  C++ Compiler:                   g++ (3.3.3)
  C++ Compiler flags:              -g -O2 -fno-exceptions -W -Wall
  Linker flags:                   
  Frontend:                       qt
    Qt version:                   3.2.3
  LyX binary dir:                 /usr/bin
  LyX files dir:                  /usr/share/lyx

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i586)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C