[Geany-Users] Difficulty installing spellcheck plugin on geany

Matthew Brush mbrush at xxxxx
Mon Oct 7 23:45:41 UTC 2019


On 2019-10-07 6:21 a.m., Garthur via Users wrote:
>   
> Attached is the make output.
> 

Using `--disable-multiterm` when you configure the build will have it 
skip that plugin. If you want the Spellcheck plugin only, you could use 
`--disable-all-plugins --enable-spellcheck`.

Regards,
Matthew Brush

> Regards Garthur
> 
>       On Monday, 7 October 2019, 6:34:40 pm AEDT, Colomban Wendling <lists.ban at herbesfolles.org> wrote:
>   
>   Le 07/10/2019 à 07:36, Garthur via Users a écrit :
>> I am a bit rough some times, I didn't save the build error.
> 
> Could you try and re-run `make` and give us the output?  Normally it'll
> try and re-do what it failed to do, and will likely error-out just the same.
> 
>> But I installed aspell separately so I can do command line spell check.
>> I wanted spell check in geany because the spell check in abiword is not
>> friendly.
>>
>> Regards Garthur
>>
>>
>> On Monday, 7 October 2019, 8:31:36 am AEDT, Colomban Wendling
>> <lists.ban at herbesfolles.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Le 05/10/2019 à 14:11, Garthur via Users a écrit :
>>> Thanks for your help:  Colomban Wendling & Lex Trotman
>>>
>>> It was the: /usr/lib/pkgconfig/geany.pc file.  I deleted it and ran:
>>> PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH"
>>> ./autogen.sh I have done the "make --keep-going"  and "make install",
>>> there was one error but it didn't appear to relate to sellingcheck,
>>> so I did the install.
>>
>> Although it *might* indeed not be related, it's kind of bold to still
>> proceed to the installation when the build failed.  Could you paste the
>> error here so we can see what that can be?
>>
>>
>>> When I restart geany, it doesn't include Spellingcheck in the "Tools
>>>> Plugin Manager" menu. Is that normal after doing the plugins
>>> install?
>>>
>>> Regards Garthur
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 7:47 PM Lex Trotman <elextr at gmail.com
>> <mailto:elextr at gmail.com>>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> The problem is pkg-config can't find geany.pc. How did you install
>>> Geany? What is the output of `pkg-config geany`? If its nothing, then
>>> you need to find where the install put the package config file
>>> (geany.pc) since it isn't in the default places pkg-config searches
>>> on your system. Then you need to follow the advice the error message
>>> gave and set the environment variable or specify --prefix and
>>> --with-geany-libdir.
>>>
>>> Cheers Lex
>>>
>>> On Mon, 30 Sep 2019 at 19:28, Garthur via Users
>>> <users at lists.geany.org <mailto:users at lists.geany.org>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> to Users I have been trying to install the spellcheck plugin, and I
>>>> am finding it quite hard. I have got to the point of downloading
>>>> the github zip file at: https://github.com/geany/geany-plugins and
>>>> running autogen.sh. This fails saying I have version 1.27 but I
>>>> have version 1.35. Here are the printouts: (I am running xenialpup
>>>> (xenial64_7-5-5 puppylinux)) Difficulty installing spellcheck
>>>> plugin on geany
>>>>
>>>>
>> /initrd/mnt/dev_save/pool/tmp/geany-plugin-spellcheck_1/github/geany-plugins-master/
>>>
>>>>
>>> type -a geany
>>>> geany is /usr/local/bin/geany
>>>>
>> /initrd/mnt/dev_save/pool/tmp/geany-plugin-spellcheck_1/github/geany-plugins-master/
>>>
>>>>
>>> /usr/local/bin/geany -V
>>>> geany 1.35 (git >= bf5c9ed) (built on 2019-01-31 with GTK 2.24.30,
>>>> GLib 2.48.2)
>>>>
>> /initrd/mnt/dev_save/pool/tmp/geany-plugin-spellcheck_1/github/geany-plugins-master/
>>>
>>>>
>>> ./autogen.sh
>>>> You should update your 'aclocal.m4' by running aclocal. autoreconf:
>>>> Entering directory `.' autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
>>>> autoreconf: running: aclocal --force -I build/cache -I build -I
>>>> build/bundled -I geanypy/m4 --install autoreconf: configure.ac:
>>>> tracing autoreconf: running: libtoolize --copy --force {... ....Not
>>>> included........ ...} checking for msgfmt... (cached)
>>>> /usr/bin/msgfmt checking for dcgettext... yes checking if msgfmt
>>>> accepts -c... yes checking for gmsgfmt... (cached) /usr/bin/msgfmt
>>>> checking for xgettext... (cached) /usr/bin/xgettext checking for
>>>> catalogs to be installed...  be ca da de el es fr gl it ja kk nl pt
>>>> pt_BR ru tr zh_CN checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
>>>> checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes checking for
>>>> GEANY... no configure: error: Package requirements (geany >= 1.29)
>>>> were not met:
>>>>
>>>> Requested 'geany >= 1.29' but version of Geany is 1.27
>>>>
>>>> Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
>>>> installed software in a non-standard prefix.
>>>>
>>>> Alternatively, you may set the environment variables GEANY_CFLAGS
>>>> and GEANY_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config. See the
>>>> pkg-config man page for more details.
>>>>
>>>>
>> /initrd/mnt/dev_save/pool/tmp/geany-plugin-spellcheck_1/github/geany-plugins-master/
>>>
>>>>
>>> uname -a
>>>> Linux xenial64-sda1 4.9.58 #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Nov 13 15:54:01 GMT
>>>> 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>>>
>> /initrd/mnt/dev_save/pool/tmp/geany-plugin-spellcheck_1/github/geany-plugins-master/
>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>> Should I report this as a bug?
>>>>
>>>> Regards Garthur
>>
>>>>
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