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Installation of
Aspell and the
Australian
English Dictionary
NOTE: If
you have reached this page directly, you may
wish to check out
http://www.dictionary.justlocal.com.au first.
The following are notes
we created to obtain and install Aspell.
Once Aspell is installed
and the Australian English dictionary files are installed you can
perform spell checking with a range of software. In particular we were
interested in getting spell checking to work with the Opera browser.
The following are
instructions on how to install Aspell 0.50.3.3. for Windows, plus one of
the Australian English dictionary files we produce.
Click on the following link and download the file to your Desktop.
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/w32/Aspell-0-50-3-3-Setup.exe
As Windows XP (and Vista) blocks
executable files from running, you first need to Unblock the file.
Right click on the file you just downloaded
Select Properties
Click Unblock
Click OK
Double click on the file to run the installation program.
Step through the installation wizard. There are no options you need to
change.
Aspell has now been installed in the folder C:\Program Files\Aspell.
We suggest that you now install the American dictionary to ensure
everything is set up correctly. Then you can go on and install the
Australian dictionary next.
Click on the following link and download the standard dictionary
installation to your Desktop.
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/w32/Aspell-en-0.50-2-3.exe
As Windows XP (and Vista) blocks
executable files from running, you first need to Unblock the file.
Right click on the file you just downloaded
Select Properties
Click Unblock
Click OK
Double click on the file to run the installation program.
Step through the installation wizard. There are no options you need to
change.
The dictionary files have now been installed.
A good way to check that everything has been installed correctly at this
point is to download and install the Opera web browser. This browser
uses Aspell for spell checking.
Use Opera and open the OpenOffice.org web page on JustLocal (www.JustLocal.com.au)
and go to the feedback form. Right click on the form and do a spell
check. If you can spell check then everything is working.
The next step is to install the Australian English dictionary files.
We prefer the "kelvin" version of the files, but you may wish to install
the "full" version of the files.
Go to www.JustLocal.com.au
Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on the OpenOffice.org image.
Select Australian English dictionary files for Aspell.
Right click on Aspell_en_AU_V2.2.0_Kelvin.zip
Save the file to your Desktop
Double click on the zip file and use the wizard to extract the files to
your Desktop. (This creates another folder your Desktop.)
When you click on Finish in the wizard the files will display.
You now need to copy the files to the correct location. (You could have
also extracted the files direct to the below location.)
Copy the files en_AU-only.rws and en_AU.multi to C:\Program Files\Aspell\dict.
NOTE: In the past we found with a program we needed to set up the
aspell.conf file to set the default dictionary. If this is required,
copy the file aspell.conf to the folder C:\Program Files\Aspell. This is
not required for the Opera browser.
To now use the Australian English dictionary files perform a spell check
and select en_AU as the dictionary. From that point on when you next
spell check the Australian English dictionary file will be used.
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