In the current version of OpenSUSE Tumbleweed the Kile spellchecking does not work. Czech language option disappeared from the dictionary menu and no words are underlined for US and GB dictionaries either. Kwrite and Kate are both working fine. My KDE version is 4.14.38.
I forgot to add that the console shows: No language dictionaries for the language : "en_US"
I can confirm this for Opensuse Tumbleweed 2019-02-05. Started in a terminal, it gives a lot of errors. kile(22592) DCD::startServer: unable to start completion-server: 0 kile(22592)/Kate (On-The-Fly Spellcheck) KateOnTheFlyChecker::KateOnTheFlyChecker: created Object::connect: No such signal KateBuffer::respellCheckBlock(KateDocument*,int,int) kile(22592)/Kate (On-The-Fly Spellcheck) KateOnTheFlyChecker::updateConfig: kile(22592): No language dictionaries for the language : "en_US"
*** Bug 400575 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
It looks like something is wrong with the openSUSE package for Kile. There's unfortunately nothing we can do here. I'm currently trying to create an AppImage of the latest Kile beta release. Once it works you should be able to run it on openSUSE as well.
Thanks, I will report back to the opensuse folks who told me to go upstream first
This is actually a problem of the KDE4 version of kile: kdelibs is not compatible with enchant 2, so it won't build the spell checking support. As for why openSUSE Tumbleweed ships the KDE4 version, it's because the KF5 version of kile hasn't had a proper release yet. We do offer snapshots from git in a separate repository, and that would be a workaround for this issue.
Installing a git snapshot of kile from a separate repository sounds great! Where can I find this OpenSUSE repository though?
I installed from http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:Unstable:Extra/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/ I've uninstalled kile and kile-lang first, added the repo with priority 102 and installed kile5. It works like a charm. But I assume they will soon integrate kile5 into Tumbleweed anyway.
(In reply to Rigo Wenning from comment #8) > I installed from > http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:Unstable:Extra/ > openSUSE_Tumbleweed/ > > I've uninstalled kile and kile-lang first, added the repo with priority 102 > and installed kile5. It works like a charm. But I assume they will soon > integrate kile5 into Tumbleweed anyway. That works like a charm indeed! Thanks.