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[Bo Grimes <vcg3rd@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 06/03/2017 11:54 AM, JP Vossen wrote:
> On 06/02/2017 06:51 PM, Bo Grimes wrote:
> > Well, as I said earlier, I have a laptop with Mint 18.1 on it. I 
> > rarely use it, but eventually was going to install Zim for when I 
> > do.  So, I followed the instructions 
> > here:https://github.com/jaap-karssenberg/zim-wiki/wiki/Ubuntu-PPA
> >
> > Same problem. Spell check works fine, but the interface is in 
> > Spanish. Although, again, even though I set the dictionary to en-us, 
> > I still have to select English (American) in the right click menu.
> >
> > First time and only instance of Zim on that laptop, only 
> > python-gtkspellcheck, no gtkspell, only English dictionaries.
> Wow, you've got me then...
>
> Sorry,
> JP

It's an entirely manageable problem, in itself.  It would be niggling to 
press on, but, of course, that's the curse side to the gift of the 
tinkerer personality I suppose.  Just out of curiosity, I noticed on 
theUbuntu-PPA page that libgtkspell0 is recommended because "GtkSpell 
provides word-processor-style highlighting and replacement of misspelled 
words in a GtkTextView widget. Right-clicking a misspelled word pops up 
a menu of suggested replacements."

On my laptop I had just followed this advice: sudo apt-get install 
graphviz ditaa texlive dvipng gnuplot scrot libgtkspell0

So I decided to remove it. Afterwards, two questions arose. First, spell 
check in Zim worked the same without it, so what is it's point?

Second, what the heck? Why did it remove inkscape, geany, pidgen, tomboy 
and slypheed? I use none of them, except Tomboy, so I let it and then 
reinstalled Tomboy, which didn't, then, pull it back in as a dependency.


Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer 
required:
  geany-plugin-addons geany-plugin-autoclose geany-plugin-automark 
geany-plugin-codenav
  geany-plugin-commander geany-plugin-ctags geany-plugin-debugger 
geany-plugin-defineformat
  geany-plugin-devhelp geany-plugin-doc geany-plugin-extrasel 
geany-plugin-gendoc
  geany-plugin-geniuspaste geany-plugin-git-changebar 
geany-plugin-insertnum geany-plugin-latex
  geany-plugin-lipsum geany-plugin-lua geany-plugin-macro 
geany-plugin-miniscript
  geany-plugin-multiterm geany-plugin-numberedbookmarks 
geany-plugin-overview
  geany-plugin-pairtaghighlighter geany-plugin-pg geany-plugin-pohelper 
geany-plugin-prj
  geany-plugin-projectorganizer geany-plugin-py geany-plugin-scope 
geany-plugin-sendmail
  geany-plugin-shiftcolumn geany-plugin-spellcheck 
geany-plugin-tableconvert
  geany-plugin-treebrowser geany-plugin-webhelper 
geany-plugin-xmlsnippets libcompfaceg1 libctpl2
  libgsl2 libonig2 libpisock9
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  geany-plugin-vc geany-plugins inkscape libgtkspell0 pidgin 
pidgin-libnotify sylpheed
  sylpheed-plugins tomboy
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 9 to remove and 9 not upgraded.
After this operation, 99.9 MB disk space will be freed.

I consider this issue resolved, so don't worry about it. I am just 
curious what libgtkspell0 is in relation to python-gtkspellcheck, if 
any, and why removing a lib I *just* installed would remove so many 
packages that pre-existed it.

Cheers,
Bo Grimes