Unable to add spell checking dictionaries to Evolution

[spadger]

Just switched to pop os from arch based distributions and I’m having trouble adding spell checking dictionaries to evolution.

I have, as I have done in the past, installed the desired aspell-fr dictionary which appears to be installed without issue however, even after a reboot I can only see various options of English to choose from in Evolution.

I have tried on both laptop and desktop with same configuration and I have the same behaviour on both. I have tried re-reading the manual and googling but no obvious solutions.

Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS
Evolution = 3.46.3 (by Flathub.org)
aspell = 0.60.8-4build1
aspell-fr = 0.50-3-8.1

Many thanks in advance for any help or ideas you may have.

[mcrha]

Hi,
it’s the problem, that it’s a Flatpak version. The Flatpak does not
read things from the host system, thus when you installed the
dictionary, it was not (and will not be) known to the Flatpak.
I think there is some trick to do it, by enabling/installing the
language support in the Flatpak (possibly for the org.gnome.Platform),
but I do not recall what precisely it was, I’m sorry.
Bye,
Milan

[spadger]

Thanks. Yes, you’re correct. It seems Flatpaks can’t access the dictionaries as described in the manual and you either need to install evolution via .deb or perhaps try this trick:

How to install additional spell check dictionaries for Flatpak apps

I reinstalled the .deb so can’t vouch for the above solution.
Thanks again.