Changes between Version 59 and Version 60 of Installing Pidgin

Timestamp:

May 13, 2010, 2:59:51 PM (14 years ago)

Author:

datallah

Comment:

Update manual dictionary installation instructions for 2.7.0

Installing Pidgin

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 == Windows Specific ==
 
-=== Is there a way to install Spell-checking support (Aspell) manually? ===
-Yes, if the installer isn't able to successfully download and install Aspell, you can do so manually.  You can download both the Aspell core and a dictionary from [http://aspell.net/win32 the win32 Aspell website].
+=== Is there a way to install Spell-checking support manually? === #manual_win32_spellcheck_installation
+Yes, if the installer isn't able to successfully download and install the dictionaries, you can do so manually.
+
+Versions 2.7.0 and newer use the dictionaries available from the [http://ftp.services.openoffice.org/pub/OpenOffice.org/contrib/dictionaries/ openoffice download site].
+You need to download the appropriate language zip file(s) (files are in the form of two-character language code followed by a two-character country code - United States English  is `en_US.zip`).
+Once you have downloaded the dictionary zip file, you need to extract it to `<Pidgin Installation Directory>\spellcheck\share\enchant\myspell\` (create the directories if they don't exist already).
+
+Versions older than 2.7.0 use Aspell; you can download both the Aspell core and a dictionary from [http://aspell.net/win32 the win32 Aspell website].
 
 === The installation aborts with the error message "Error Installing GTK+ Runtime" ===