On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Scott Kostyshak <skost...@lyx.org> wrote: > 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.
Hi Fabio, It was incorrect for me to say that you have to explicitly enable the spellchecking libraries. My guess now is that you are missing the development libraries to link against (e.g. on Ubuntu you need libhunspell-dev installed). Best, Scott
