On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 5:00 AM, Fabio Fiorelli <ff...@cam.ac.uk> wrote: > Hello everyone > I'm having a problem with the spell-checker. I'm running a computer with > CentOS 6.5 installed, and I installed Lyx 2.1. However when I go in the > settings, the spell-checker option is greyed out and cannot be activated. > The strange thing is that not only a spell-checker was already installed > (hunspell from LibreOffice), but I also attempted reinstalling after > updating hunspell to the latest version with all the available dictionaries > installed. > Anyone else had this problem? > Many thanks
Hi Fabio, LyX needs to be compiled with spellchecker support enabled (I assume this requires the devel libraries to link against). If you are compiling with CMake, try -DLYX_HUNSPELL=ON -DLYX_ENCHANT=ON for both Hunspell and Enchant. Best, Scott