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Activate spellchecker in seamonkey mail (spell check, spelling check)

Asked by Bryce Nesbitt

How do I activate spell checking in Seamonkey under Ubuntu?

1) By default it has no spelling checking (while ''/ check spelling as you type' is enabled, all words are OK no matter how badely speled).

2) Entering "Options->Check Spelling" reveals an empty language box. Installing the English language pack gives error -212.

3) Installing the English Language pack as root, results in new behavior: every possible word is marked as mispelled, both in mail and in web forms.

Seamonkey: SeaMonkey 1.1.9
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080313 SeaMonkey/1.1.9 (Ubuntu-1.1.9+nobinonly-0ubuntu1)

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#1

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Bryce Nesbitt (bryce2) said : 		#2

I have the answer...

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Bryce Nesbitt (bryce2) said : 		#3

The error -212 is because I was not root. Installing as root left the dictionary file without world read permissions. chmod ogu+r fixed that.