Enchant can't find en_US dictionary.
Bug #1472890 reported by
Sondra Kinsey
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| enchant (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Bug Description
When I start geany (which uses libenchant), I get the following message in a dialog window:
"The Enchant library couldn't be initialized (unknown error (maybe the chosen language is not available))."
So I try to install enchant (a CLI interface to libenchant)
$ sudo apt-get install enchant
# no problems
$ enchant -l < IF\ FOUND.txt
Couldn't create a dictionary for en_US.UTF-8
I looked around and couldn't find a missing dictionary I needed to install. I checked, and the problem recurs on a brand new LiveCD run. Any ideas on how to get enchant working again?
It started about April, maybe when the 14.04.2 release came out (I'm still running 14.04.0, but with some upgraded packages). Sorry I didn't report it sooner.
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| Sondra Kinsey (sondra.kinsey) wrote | #1 |
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I forgot the obligatory environment info:
$ apt-cache showpkg libenchant1c2a
[...] 1.6.0-10ubuntu1 [...]
$ enchant -v
@(#) International Ispell Version 3.1.20 (but really Enchant 1.6.0)
$ lsb_release -d
Description: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
$ geany --version
geany 1.24.1 (built on 2014-05-20 with GTK 2.24.23, GLib 2.40.0)