David James Whitely

I’m working on a special project involving Aspell, here are some instructions for updating Aspell on your Dreamhost server.
This page from Dreamhost has proven to be extremely useful.
wget ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/aspell-0.60.6.tar.gz
wget ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/dict/en/aspell6-en-6.0-0.tar.bz2
tar -xvzf aspell-0.60.6.tar.gz
tar -xvjf aspell6-en-6.0-0.tar.bz2
mkdir usr
cd aspell-0.60.6
./configure --prefix=$HOME/usr
make
make install
make clean
cd ..
Then
nano .bash_profile
Add Aspell to your path:
PATH=$HOME/usr/bin/:$HOME/usr/share/:$PATH
export PATH
Save changes, logout and back in to see changes to your path.
Then
cd aspell6-en-6.0-0
./configure
make
make install
make clean
cd ..

That’s it! Type “aspell -v” to make sure you’re now running version 6, not 3, which is what Dreamhost has by default. Disregard what it says about changing spellchecker.php, it’s still necessary to force utf-8 (at least in my tests). Now it’s time to start hacking Speller Pages.