------Original Message----- >From: Gora Mohanty <[email protected]> >Sent: Apr 5, 2009 12:50 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [ubuntu-in] importing aspell-hi dictionary into another computer > >On Thu, 2 Apr 2009 23:37:03 -0400 (GMT-04:00) >Dinbandhu <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I have spent months working on both my aspell-hi personalized >> dictionary as well as the aspell-hi system-wide dictionary, and >> now have a fairly extensive dictionary whose vocabulary is >> specialized for the writing which I do. I am now helping a >> colleague to set up the same aspell Hindi spell-checker in his >> computer, and need to install these Hindi dictionaries of mine >> for use with aspell in his computer. >[...] >> So it would seem logical enough >> that if I want to put my hi.cwl into his computer, then I can >> just compress it into the hi.cwl.gz format and install it in >> his computer. Should this work? >[...] > >No, just copying hi.cwl.gz is not going to work, and that >procedure never has worked, at least not with recent versions >of aspell. The file that aspell actually uses is in >/var/lib/aspell/hi.rws on an Ubuntu system. > >The procedure to make this work is: > o Download the aspell Hindi dictionary distribution from >ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/dict/hi/aspell6-hi-0.02-0.tar.bz2 > o Unarchive it: > tar xjf aspell6-hi-0.02-0.tar.bz2 > cd aspell6-hi-0.02-0 # All further work from this dir. > o Replace hi.cwl in the distribution with your hi.cwl. > o See README for instructions. You have to run the following > commands: > ./configure > make > sudo make install
Wow, this is great information-- thanks! I had really been struggling to get this done, and now with the information you've given it should be straightforward. Two questions on the above: 1. The aspell Hindi dictionary distribution is also available directly from the repositories via Synaptic in Ubunutu. Is that a different version from the one you refer to above (at the site ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/dict/hi/aspell6-hi-0.02-0.tar.bz2)? 2. If it is different, then if someone has already installed the version via Synaptic, I guess it would be very important to first do a complete uninstall of that (using Synaptic), and then follow the instructions above. > o You can now remake the aspell Hindi distribution for use in > a different computer, with: > make dist This command is to be done from within the aspell6-hi-0.02-0 directory, right? > which will create a aspell6-hi-0.02-0.tar.bz2 distribution > package in the current directory. This will contain the new > hi.cwl, and saves you the trouble of manually replacing it > each time. I see-- so once I've created this file, I can email it to my colleagues and when they follow the above directions, they will get an aspell-hi which contains the dictionary I have made. > However, please do not redistribute it publicly > with the same verion number, and variant name, so as not to > cause confusion with the official distribution. If you wish > to make your list publicly available, please contact me off- > list. Got it. Thank you very much. Regards, Swarup -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
