My suggestion for an easier way to install aspell (and other unix
programs) in OSX is to use fink.
Go to:
fink.sourceforge.net
It has a very simple command line interface. If you prefer something
a little more GUI-like, you can get finkcommander as well:
finkcommander.sorceforge.net
Basically, fink is a package management environment. It will set the
appropriate paths in OSX, compile and install programs and
dependencies. I have installed aspell using fink, and it works
perfectly. (One additional benefit is that the stable distribution
of fink also comes with pre-compiled versions of most programs, so
you can install without compiling.)
Hope this works.
Tomoharu
On Jun 10, 2006, at 9:33 AM, Christian Liesen wrote:
Hello,
I'm experiencing a problem with installing aspell on Mac OS X 10.4.6.
I followed these instructions by the book: http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/
MacSpelling
What happens is that I end up with two aspell folders on my desktop
(one with aspell itself labeled "aspell-0.60.4", another one with
the desired dictionary labeled "aspell6-en-6.0-0"). These folders
contain files that obviously were generated when running the
configure-, make- and sudo make installation-processes, since their
date is today.
There are no other aspell folders anywhere on my HDD, except for
these two.
I reconfigured Lyx 1.4.1, but it does not recognize aspell at all.
Instead it says that "Error: The file "/usr/local/lib/aspell-0.60/
ngerman" can not be opened for reading. There is no file named
"ngerman" anywhere on my computer. What's going on here? Did I miss
something?
Thanks ever so much for your help,
Christian
