[aspell-user] balsa: unable to load "aspell" module

[Kristopher Andersen]

I'm having a problem getting aspell to work with Balsa (balsa-1.1.7-1) in
Red Hat 7.1. When I try to spell check a message, it comes back with
"unable to load aspell module." Searching around found a bug report on
Bugzilla

   http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=42471

which seems to point to a problem with the RPM provided with the 7.1
distribution. (I have aspell-0.32.6-2 and pspell-0.11.2-2 installed.) I've
gotten aspell-0.33.7-1.i386.rpm, but can't manage to install it. aspell
itself needs pspell-0.12.2. When trying to install *that* I get,

   address@hidden rpm -ivh pspell-0.12.2-3.i386.rpm 
   Preparing...                ###########################################
[100%]
   file /usr/bin/pspell-config from install of pspell-0.12.2-3 conflicts
with file from package pspell-0.11.2-2
   file /usr/lib/libpspell-modules.so.1.0.1 from install of pspell-0.12.2-3
conflicts with file from package pspell-0.11.2-2

Any advice?! (By the way, forcing the RPM installations doesn't help. It
only turns Balsa's spellcheck button into an autodestruct button.) I'd
really prefer to stay aware from a source installation...

Cheers
-- 
Kristopher Andersen
http://yclept.ucdavis.edu/~andersen