How do I add missing dictionaries for aspell? [closed]

Aspell version:

$ aspell -v
@(#) International Ispell Version 3.1.20 (but really Aspell 0.60.6)

Dump dict yields no results:

$ aspell dump dicts

First noticed the problem when I did this, was originally working on web server, but someone updated something and it hasn't worked since:

$ aspell check temp_test_file.txt
Error: No word lists can be found for the language "en_US".

What's the proper way of installing the required dictionaries? I believe we're running this on CentOS.

And also, /usr/lib/aspell-0.60 does not contain the required dictionaries (provided that they're supposed to be saved there).

data-dir: /usr/lib/aspell-0.60

6 Answers

If you've installed pspell/aspell via a package channel, the dictionaries may be available in another package. On CentOS 6 using default yum repositories, English dictionaries are in package aspell-en.

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Download dictionaries from here: ftp://Unzip it and do,

 ./configure make make install

All the instructions are in README. This Makefile will find the correct locations that these dictionaries should go to.

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I had same problem on Fedora 22. I solved it by installing aspell-en.x86_64package.

I found that I had file permission errors with the make install step (as per the README instructions from the download above) and couldn't chmod the /sw/share/aspell/ directory. Running sudo make install got around the problem.

Hope that saves someone a headache!

You need to install en-aspell. In FreeBSD:

pkg install en-aspell

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On macOS, my problem (as per usual) was that I installed it via some method other than Homebrew (brew install aspell and/or brew cask install cocoaspell).