The gspell package provides a flexible API to add spell checking to a GTK+ application.
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Download (HTTP): https://download.gnome.org/sources/gspell/1.12/gspell-1.12.0.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: f8e39fc95d3f0651e943b5ccb95694b7
Download size: 423 KB
Estimated disk space required: 13 MB (with tests)
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU (with tests)
enchant-2.3.3, ICU-72.1, and GTK+-3.24.36
gobject-introspection-1.74.0, GTK-Doc-1.33.2, Vala-0.56.3, and Valgrind-3.20.0
User Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gspell
Install gspell by running the following commands:
./configure --prefix=/usr && make
To test the results, issue: make check. The tests must be run in an X session. One test, test-checker, is known to fail if the external package Hunspell is not installed.
Now, as the root user:
make install