[sylpheed:33439] Re: Sylpheed 3.0beta4 sometimes dies when sending mail in an Ubuntu 64bit system - more detail -- SOLVED

[John Shane]

On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 11:55:47 +0100
mike <mykey at mykey.de> wrote:

> Hi John
> 
> 
> On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 12:09:50 +0200
> John Shane <jslists at mtwafrica.org> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > If anyone can post instructions for how I can install an older
> > version of libenchant I would be most grateful.  
> > 
> 
> It has been discussed, but I guess it is a little hard to find - you
> have two options:
> - downgrade enchant to version 1.4.2
> - or build version 1.5.0 using:
>  './configure --disable-zemberek' (spellcheck turkish)
> 
> Downgrading a package in ubuntu seems a little tedious - from what I
> read you should first:
> 
> apt-cache showpkg enchant (or whatever the package is called)
> 
> followed by:
> 
> sudo aptitude install enchant=<version number output from before>

Many thanks, Mike.  With your advice I searched for and found the
enchant source code at abiword.  Seemed easiest to build a new version
of 1.5 without the turkish spellcheck than going through the downgrade
process. I did that and then recompiled Sylpheed. Spellcheck
and everything else works as expected once more. No segfaults. 

Thanks for your help everyone.  John