[pmwiki-users] Installing spellchecker, path to Aspell command

Patrick R. Michaud pmichaud at pobox.com
Sat Jan 28 09:24:24 CST 2006


On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 09:28:04PM -0700, Philip Stitt wrote:
>    I'm trying to get the spellchecker installed properly, but I can't figure
>    out the correct path to the Aspell command. I need to change the line:
> 
>    $aspell_prog = '/usr/local/bin/aspell';
> 
>    and I have no idea how to do that, I've tried many different paths but
>    don't really know what I'm doing. 

We could modify the recipe so that it automatically searches for aspell
in common locations and uses the first one it finds.

>    So my question is: how do I figure out what the path to the Aspell command
>    is?

If you can get to a command line prompt on your server, then
the command "which aspell" should tell you where it's located.

Pm





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