Re: [Aspell-user] Aspell-en-0.51-0 install problem

[Neil Hodge]

Maurice:

Maurice Rickard wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've run into what seems like a strange install problem, but it's possible that  I'm overlooking something obvious.  I've been able to install both Aspell 
and aspell-en successfully on Mac OS X (on my own machine), but I'm having 
problems doing this on a shared FreeBSD host.  I'd vastly appreciate anyone's 
insights on this.
> As it's a shared host, I don't have access to /usr/local, and I've instead been 
> installing in /usr/home/USERNAME.  Two problems result from this: even though 
> I've config'ed with this:
>
> ./configure --vars ASPELL=/usr/home/USERNAME/lib WORD_LIST_COMPRESS=/usr/home/USERNAME/share/aspell 
>
> the Makefile is written with the default /usr/local/lib/aspell and /usr/local/share/aspell, and I've had to edit the Makefile manually.  
>
> Once I edit the Makefile, however, I'm getting this error on make: "Error: The file 
> "/usr/local/share/aspell/iso8859-1.dat" can not be opened for reading."  The error, 
> of course, is that the file doesn't exist there--it's at /usr/home/USERNAME/share/aspell.
>
> Any hints, tips, or ideas about what I can do to get the Makefile to look at 
> the right directory for iso8859-1.dat?
>
> Thanks for taking the time to look at this.
I went through the exact same thing a few weeks ago.  I finally got it working 
by doing the following:

1. When you are installing the main executables, make sure to do the following:

./configure --prefix=/usr/home/USERNAME

2. (IMPORTANT) Make sure both aspell and word-list-compress are in the path:

which aspell
which word-list-compress

3. (VERY IMPORTANT) DO NOT FORCE the dictionary ./configure file with any 
options, just run

./configure

by itself.  The first time I tried to install, I assumed that the ./configure 
would need a bunch of flags, but that just mucked things up.

I installed aspell and all of the necessary files this way to a mock /usr 
directory I have set up under my home dir (/home/username/usr), and it worked 
just fine.

Neil