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Subsections

2. Getting Started

2.1 Obtaining

The latest version of pspell can always be found at the pspell home page at http://pspell.sourceforge.net/

2.2 Installation

To install the library simply type

./configure
make
make install
Then install at least one pspell module. Currently the only available module is the Aspell when. You can get aspell from http://aspell.sourceforge.net/. The pspell_aspell library needs to be installed in the same location as the pspell library which is generally /usr/local/install/.

2.3 Trouble Shooting

If you get a message similar to ``Text relocation remains'' that probably means that libstdc++ was not compiled with position-independent code support. You need to either build a shared library version of libstdc++ (it is part of gcc) or disable building of the shared library with ``configure -disable-shared''. Unfortunately, if you have to disable building of the shared libraries you probably won't be able to run the examples (please see section 4.1 for more info).

2.4 Helping Out

RIght now the area I need the most help in is creating the ispell module. If you are interested in creating one please contact me at kevinatk@home.com.


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Kevin Atkinson 2000-04-02