ISpell not working

[Jason DeVita]

All of the following assumes you're using bash as your shell (you can
check by typing "echo $SHELL").  If you're using another shell, the idea
is the same but the files are different.

Type "whereis ispell".  That should return a path to ispell (if it
doesn't, you may not have ispell installed).

[jdevita]$ whereis ispell
ispell: /usr/bin/ispell

You can check your path with "echo $PATH".  If the path to ispell is
not in your PATH, then add the following line to ~/.bash_profile

PATH=$PATH":/usr/bin"
(substituting, of course, whatever the path is on your machine)

You'll need to re-login inorder for it to take effect (.bash_profile is
executed upon login).  Alternatively, you can type "source
~/.bash_profile", and the change will take effect immediately, but only
for the current shell.

If you use csh or tcsh, I *believe* that ~/.login is the file to use.  If
you use ksh or zsh, you're on your own.

HTH,
J


On Fri, 16 Apr 2004, Eric Schwarzkopf wrote:

> Why is ISpell not orking for me?
> I get the following message, and I don't really know how to fix or check it:
>
> "ISpell could not be started
>
> Please make sure you have ISpell properly configured and in your PATH.
>
> Use setting->configure."
>
>
> I know that with DOS and I can go into the old autoexec.bat file and edit the
> PATH, but I haven't a clue on how to do this with Linux, can someone provide
> instructions?
>
> Thanks
> Eric
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