On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 10:02 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann
<engelm...@uni-tuebingen.de> wrote:
> the spellchecker for my kubuntu 14.04 can not be selected.
> Under Preferences>Language settings>Spellchecker
> the Spellchecker engine box v  can not be klicked (grayed out)
> same with the other menu items on the right side of
> Preferences>Language settings>Spellchecker
>
What version of LyX? Did you install it from Ubuntu repos or from the
PPA? From memory, the LyX build in Ubuntu repos has spellchecking
disabled for some reason.

Liviu


> I seem to remember that one has to install lyx anew in this case. Is this
> correct?
> What exactly should I have installed for a working spellchecker? And where?
> Under Preferences>Paths
> Hunspell dictionaries browse-box is grayed out and thus not clickable
>
> hunspell packages are in various places such as usr/share usr/lib
>
> Wolfgang
>



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