Re: [Aspell-user] Newbie trying to install aspell

[Brian Nelson]

On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 02:47:41PM +0200, Ivan Villanueva wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 10:16:04AM -0400, Albert Banks wrote:
> > I have root access to our linux web server and would like to install
> > aspell for use in a web application.  I have downloaded the following
> > files:
> > 
> > aspell-0.60.2.tar.gz
> > aspell6-en-6.0-0.tar.bz2
> > 
> > I have read the generic install instructions in the online manual, but
> > it I am relatively new to unix and need more detailed instructions
> > including where to upload the files and how to untar and run the
> > install.  I hope you can help.
> 
> If you have Linux Debian in your server. The next command (as root) should
> download and install everything automatically:
> 
> apt-get install aspell-en

Err, if he's installing aspell from a source tarball, he'll want to
rebuild the dictionaries as well.  Otherwise they probably wouldn't be
installed in the right place.

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