Installing Pidgin 2.6.6 with Spell checker failed.

[Daniel Atallah]

On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 13:18, Harold F. Ayers Jr. <hfayersjr at yahoo.com> wrote:
> My Windows 7 toybox had an older version of Pidgin installed (and for some
> reason, Aspell wasn't installed at that time).
> I noticed that Aspell wasn't installed while installing Pidgin 2.6.6, so I
> selected it to install Aspell, but the installation
> kept failing (unknown why, I'm guessing that the Pidgin website was either
> busy, my connection was timing out, or
> the Internet gods were mad at me again).
> I was finally able to read the FAQ pertaining to installing Aspell manually
> and got Aspell installed. The Pidgin FAQ
> doesn't state how to get Aspell working with Pidgin (or VIS-A-VIS).
>
> My question is ...how to get Pidgin working with Aspell?
>

You need to have both Aspell and the appropriate language dictionary
(the language in which Pidgin is running) installed, then it should
just work.

-D