On Wednesday 16 September 2015, Baron wrote:
> Hi Gerhard,
>
> On Wednesday 16 September 2015 14:10:33 Gerhard Zintel wrote:
> > dpkg -l | grep aspell
>
> $ dpkg -l | grep aspell
> ii  libaspell15:i386                    0.60.7~20110707-1.3
> i386         GNU Aspell spell-checker runtime library
>
> The above is what I get back from the command.
> However "apt list aspell" returns the above infomation and
> "apt list aspell-en" returns "aspell-en/stable 7.1-0-1.1 all"
>
>
> Kwrite gives me the error message:-
>
> The spelling program could not be started. Please make sure that
> you have set the correct spelling program and that it is properly
> configured and in your path.
>
> Path returns:-
>
> /opt/trinity/bin
> /usr/local/bin
> /opt/trinity/bin
> /usr/bin
> /bin
> /usr/local/games
> /usr/games
> /usr/share/aspell
$ dpkg -l | grep aspell
gives me:
--------- snip --------------------
ii  aspell 0.60.7~20110707-1build1 i386 GNU Aspell spell-checker
ii  aspell-en 7.1-0-1 all English dictionary for GNU Aspell
ii  libaspell15 0.60.7~20110707-1build1 i386 GNU Aspell spell-checker 
runtime library
--------- snip --------------------

what happens if you try:
$ apt-get install aspell aspell-en

Gerhard