Success-- although the progress towards it was rather tortuous.
1. I compiled and installed hunspell-devel 2. Recompiled and reinstalled lyx 2.0.4 3. Told lyx that the spellchecker to use was Enchant (when I tried to use hunspell, it complained that there are no dictionaries, although the hunspell dictionaries are installed) Thanks for the help-- EK --
