Can't get Spell Check to work on Fedora

[mihawk90]

Hey there,

first time(-ish) using this application and running into a bit of an issue. I read the Help Page and the error messages are luckily actually helpful too, but even with Hunspell present, I can't get Spell Checking to work:

libhunspell assembly:<unknown assembly> type:<unknown type> member:(null)
  at (wrapper managed-to-native) Nikse.SubtitleEdit.Logic.NativeMethods.Hunspell_create(string,string)
  at Nikse.SubtitleEdit.Logic.SpellCheck.LinuxHunspell..ctor (System.String affDirectory, System.String dicDictory) [0x0003b] in <6dade9d83b42447580ed694f6469366f>:0 
  at Nikse.SubtitleEdit.Logic.SpellCheck.Hunspell.GetHunspell (System.String dictionary) [0x0003b] in <6dade9d83b42447580ed694f6469366f>:0 
  at Nikse.SubtitleEdit.Forms.SpellCheck.LoadHunspell (System.String dictionary) [0x00018] in <6dade9d83b42447580ed694f6469366f>:0 
  at Nikse.SubtitleEdit.Forms.SpellCheck.LoadDictionaries (System.String dictionaryFolder, System.String dictionary, System.String languageName) [0x0002a] in <6dade9d83b42447580ed694f6469366f>:0 
  at Nikse.SubtitleEdit.Forms.SpellCheck.DoSpellCheck (System.Boolean autoDetect, Nikse.SubtitleEdit.Core.Common.Subtitle subtitle, System.String dictionaryFolder, Nikse.SubtitleEdit.Forms.Main mainWindow, System.Int32 startLine) [0x0020e] in <6dade9d83b42447580ed694f6469366f>:0 
  at (wrapper remoting-invoke-with-check) Nikse.SubtitleEdit.Forms.SpellCheck.DoSpellCheck(bool,Nikse.SubtitleEdit.Core.Common.Subtitle,string,Nikse.SubtitleEdit.Forms.Main,int)
  at Nikse.SubtitleEdit.Forms.Main.SpellCheck (System.Boolean autoDetect, System.Int32 startFromLine) [0x000ea] in <6dade9d83b42447580ed694f6469366f>:0 

Sounds pretty straightforward to me, but it seems it's not. Hunspell is certainly installed:

z% dnf list installed | grep hunspell
hunspell.i686                                        1.7.2-3.fc38                        @fedora                                    
hunspell.x86_64                                      1.7.2-3.fc38                        @fedora                                    
hunspell-de.noarch                                   20161207-5.fc38                     @fedora                                    
hunspell-devel.i686                                  1.7.2-3.fc38                        @fedora                                    
hunspell-devel.x86_64                                1.7.2-3.fc38                        @fedora                                    
hunspell-en.noarch                                   0.20201207-3.fc38                   @fedora                                    
hunspell-en-GB.noarch                                0.20201207-3.fc38                   @fedora                                    
hunspell-en-US.noarch                                0.20201207-3.fc38                   @fedora                                    
hunspell-filesystem.x86_64                           1.7.2-3.fc38                        @fedora

Because of the "unknown assembly" in the error message I thought it might be a bitness issue, which is why I installed the 32bit packages too, but no luck still.

And it definitely works standalone:

z% hunspell
Hunspell 1.7.2
cat
*

esxample
& esxample 2 0: example, sample

Am I doing something wrong here? :/

edit:
Should also mention hunspell works fine in Kwrite, LibreOffice, and Aegisub. But it seems the Tesseract OCR depends on it and that's what I need the most.

[mihawk90]

Still couldn't get it to work, but semi-correction:

But it seems the Tesseract OCR depends on it and that's what I need the most.

Looks like it doesn't "depend" on it to do the OCR, it's just an added spellcheck after the fact. I didn't install my local language pack for Tesseract manually so it couldn't do the recognition.
That works now, and I guess I'll have to do the Spellcheck afterwards in another program. At least the OCR works though.

[mihawk90]

It appears I'm blind... I completely missed a line in the FAQ:

To use spell check you will need to make a symlink link like this: sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/libhunspell-1.7.so.0 ~/Downloads/SubtitleEdit/libhunspell.so

So yeah after doing that the errors went away, although it seems to be crashing somewhere. No big deal tho.