Moodle in English: Error message from spell check - 'No suitable dictionary found installed on your server!'

Error message from spell check - 'No suitable dictionary found installed on your server!'

av Peter Cameron - onsdag, 8 september 2004, 14:57

Getting this error when trying to use spell check 'No suitable dictionary found installed on your server!'

Running Linux, Moodle 1.4, Aspel Version 3.1.20 (but really Aspell .33.7.1 alpha)

Works in command line, but not in Moodle.

Help would be appreciated

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Re: Error message from spell check - 'No suitable dictionary found installed on your server!'

av Janne Mikkonen - onsdag, 8 september 2004, 17:10

Your aspell version seems to be too old! You need version 0.5 or better
http://aspell.sourceforge.net/

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Re: Error message from spell check - 'No suitable dictionary found installed on your server!'

av W Page - måndag, 4 oktober 2004, 12:13

Hi Janne!

I finally got a chance to place the following at the command line in SSH,

aspell dump dicts
and got back
bash: ./aspell: is a directory

I know I have installed Aspell with the "en" dictionary.

WP1

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Re: Error message from spell check - 'No suitable dictionary found installed on your server!'

av Janne Mikkonen - måndag, 4 oktober 2004, 20:24

Ok! So your aspell is installed underneath your home directory.

Try command ./aspell/aspell dump dicts

or first go to aspell subdirectory cd aspell then write command aspell dump dicts

- Janne -

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Re: Error message from spell check - 'No suitable dictionary found installed on your server!'

av W Page - tisdag, 5 oktober 2004, 02:00

Hi Janne!

This is what happened,

Went to aspell subdirectory cd aspell then wrote the command
aspell dump dicts.
This was the result,
u12345678:~/aspell > aspell dump dicts
bash: aspell: command not found
u12345678:~/aspell >
Tried the following command directly from the prompt.
./aspell/aspell dump dicts.
This is what happened,
u12345678:~ > ./aspell/aspell dump dicts
bash: ./aspell/aspell: No such file or directory
u12345678:~ >

WP1

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Re: Error message from spell check - 'No suitable dictionary found installed on your server!'

av Janne Mikkonen - tisdag, 5 oktober 2004, 05:52

Hi WP1

It seems like you don't have aspell installed on your server!?! To veryfy this write command: whereis aspell

If nothing comes up (no path), then aspell isn't there

If you're using hosted server, then you must ask your server admin to install it.

- Janne -

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Re: Error message from spell check - 'No suitable dictionary found installed on your server!'

av W Page - tisdag, 5 oktober 2004, 11:13

Hi Janne!

Below is the result of your latest suggestion. I only get "aspell:" back.

u12345678:~ > whereis aspell
aspell:
u35879489:~ >

I installed "aspell-0.50.5.tar.gz" and the English language pack "aspell5-en-6.0-0.tar.bz2". This was the language pack recommended for Aspell .5 by Kevin Atkinson who is the Maintainer of GNU Aspell.

I have placed the readout from SSH from mostly "cd" commands with "aspell".

The first output is from the directory of the web site so you can see the "aspell" directory is there. I went through the "./configure - make - make install" inside the "aspell" directory and all went fine.
The second run displays the contents inside of the "aspell" directory.
The third run displays the contents inside of the "aspell/bin" directory.

You might see something to explain why the speller is not working on my sites.

WP1

u12345678:~ > dir
drwxr-xr-x   17 u1234567 ftpusers     4096 Oct 4 13:01 aspell
drwxr-xr-x    3 u1234567 ftpusers     4096 Oct 3 23:50 aspell5-en-6.0-0
u12345678:~/aspell >

u12345678:~ > cd aspell
u12345678:~/aspell > dir
total 1664
-rw-r--r--    1 u1234567 ftpusers    26430 Jul 29 2002 COPYING
-rw-r--r--    1 u1234567 ftpusers     6302 Feb 9 2004 ChangeLog
-rw-r--r--    1 u1234567 ftpusers    18366 Oct 3 23:22 Makefile
-rw-r--r--    1 u1234567 ftpusers      225 Feb 10 2004 Makefile.am
-rw-r--r--    1 u1234567 ftpusers    18413 Feb 10 2004 Makefile.in
-rw-r--r--    1 u1234567 ftpusers    13192 Feb 10 2004 README
-rw-r--r--    1 u1234567 ftpusers        2 Aug 4 2002 TODO
-rw-r--r--    1 u1234567 ftpusers   243829 Feb 10 2004 aclocal.m4
-rw-r--r--    1 u1234567 ftpusers        0 Oct 4 13:01 aspell
drwxr-xr-x    3 u1234567 ftpusers     4096 Oct 3 23:22 auto
drwxr-xr-x    2 u1234567 ftpusers     4096 Oct 3 23:25 bin
drwxr-xr-x    4 u1234567 ftpusers     4096 Oct 3 23:23 common
-rwxr-xr-x    1 u1234567 ftpusers    43019 Jan 25 2004 config.guess
-rw-r--r--    1 u1234567 ftpusers    29358 Oct 3 23:22 config.log
-rwxr-xr-x    1 u1234567 ftpusers    40421 Oct 3 23:22 config.status
-rwxr-xr-x    1 u1234567 ftpusers    30925 Jan 25 2004 config.sub
-rwxr-xr--    1 u1234567 ftpusers   686531 Feb 10 2004 configure
-rw-r--r--    1 u1234567 ftpusers     9106 Feb 10 2004 configure.ac
drwxr-xr-x    2 u1234567 ftpusers     4096 Oct 3 23:22 data
-rwxr-xr--    1 u1234567 ftpusers    12123 Aug 8 2002 depcomp
drwxr-xr-x    4 u1234567 ftpusers     4096 Oct 3 23:25 examples
drwxr-xr-x    3 u1234567 ftpusers     4096 Oct 3 23:25 include
-rwxr-xr--    1 u1234567 ftpusers     5569 Aug 8 2002 install-sh
drwxr-xr-x    3 u1234567 ftpusers     4096 Oct 3 23:22 interfaces
drwxr-xr-x    5 u1234567 ftpusers     4096 Oct 3 23:35 lib
-rwxr-xr-x    1 u1234567 ftpusers   202499 Oct 3 23:22 libtool
-rw-r--r--    1 u1234567 ftpusers   182734 Jan 25 2004 ltmain.sh
drwxr-xr-x    6 u1234567 ftpusers     4096 Oct 3 23:22 manual
-rwxr-xr--    1 u1234567 ftpusers    10270 Aug 8 2002 missing
-rwxr-xr--    1 u1234567 ftpusers     1801 Aug 8 2002 mkinstalldirs
drwxr-xr-x    5 u1234567 ftpusers     4096 Oct 3 23:22 modules
drwxr-xr-x    4 u1234567 ftpusers     4096 Oct 3 23:25 prog
drwxr-xr-x    2 u1234567 ftpusers     4096 Oct 3 23:24 scripts
drwxr-xr-x    4 u1234567 ftpusers     4096 Oct 3 23:25 share
drwxr-xr-x    2 u1234567 ftpusers     4096 Feb 10 2004 suncc
drwxr-xr-x    3 u1234567 ftpusers     4096 Feb 10 2004 win32
u12345678:~/aspell >

u12345678:~/aspell > cd bin
u12345678:~/aspell/bin > dir
total 1288
-rwxr-xr-x    1 u1234567 ftpusers 1281063 Oct 3 23:25 aspell
-rwxr-xr-x    1 u1234567 ftpusers     2044 Oct 3 23:25 aspell-import
-rwxr-xr-x    1 u1234567 ftpusers      433 Oct 3 23:25 pspell-config
-rwxr-xr-x    1 u1234567 ftpusers       92 Oct 3 23:25 run-with-aspell
-rwxr-xr-x    1 u1234567 ftpusers    16943 Oct 3 23:25 word-list-compress
u12345678:~/aspell >

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Re: Error message from spell check - 'No suitable dictionary found installed on your server!'

av Janne Mikkonen - onsdag, 6 oktober 2004, 01:28

Yep! If installing went well without any error messages, the only problem that you have is that aspell is not in your PATH invironment variable. You need to supply full path to the aspell executable (binary) eg. /path/to/aspell/bin

When you write aspell dump dicts you either must be in the ~/aspell/bin directory or provide appropriate path to aspell binary. If you're running this command in the bin directory then you'll need to provide an extra dot and slash before the command: ./aspell dump dicts this tells to bash to find this executable in this current directory.

Your Moodle configuration variable should also point to that bin directory.

I really do hope this isn't all that confusing

- Janne -

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Re: Error message from spell check - 'No suitable dictionary found installed on your server!'

av W Page - onsdag, 6 oktober 2004, 05:31

Hi Janne!

Two things.

THING ONE

I went into the "aspell/bin" and got the following,

u12345678:~ > cd aspell
u12345678:~/aspell > cd bin
u12345678:~/aspell/bin > ./aspell dump dicts
en
en-variant_0
en-variant_1
en-variant_2
en-w_accents
en-wo_accents
en_CA
en_CA-w-accents
en_CA-w_accents
en_CA-wo_accents
en_GB
en_GB-ise
en_GB-ise-w_accents
en_GB-ise-wo_accents
en_GB-ize
en_GB-ize-w_accents
en_GB-ize-wo_accents
en_GB-w-accents
en_GB-w_accents
en_GB-wo_accents
en_US
en_US-w-accents
en_US-w_accents
en_US-wo_accents
u12345678:~/aspell/bin >

THING TWO

This is an example of how my "config" file looks.

Where should I make the changes for the speller?
What code should I use?

<?php /// Moodle Configuration File
unset($CFG);

$CFG->dbtype    = 'mysql';
$CFG->dbhost    = 'db99.sillysal.net';
$CFG->dbname    = 'db12345678';
$CFG->dbuser    = 'dbo12345678';
$CFG->dbpass    = 'ZzXxCcVv';
$CFG->dbpersist = false;
$CFG->prefix    = 'mdl_';

$CFG->wwwroot   = 'http://s222222.onlinehome.us/moodle';
$CFG->dirroot   = '/homepages/22/d12345678/htdocs/moodle';
$CFG->dataroot = '/homepages/22/d12345678/htdocs/moodledata';

$CFG->directorypermissions = 0777;

require_once("$CFG->dirroot/lib/setup.php");
// MAKE SURE WHEN YOU EDIT THIS FILE THAT THERE ARE NO SPACES, BLANK LINES,
// RETURNS, OR ANYTHING ELSE AFTER THE TWO CHARACTERS ON THE NEXT LINE.
?>

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Re: Error message from spell check - 'No suitable dictionary found installed on your server!'

av Janne Mikkonen - onsdag, 6 oktober 2004, 13:11

Put the path to the aspell binary let say right above
$CFG->directorypermissions:
$CFG->aspellpath = '/path/to/aspell/bin/aspell'

That should do it...

- Janne -

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Re: Error message from spell check - 'No suitable dictionary found installed on your server!'

av W Page - onsdag, 6 oktober 2004, 21:20

Hi Janne!

I made the changes in "Config.php".

All is now very happy

in WP1 Speller land.

I have a few "How Tos" to write. I will add this to the list for 1and1.com users. It might also help some other folks using shared hosting with SSH access.

WP1

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Re: Error message from spell check - 'No suitable dictionary found installed on your server!'

av Janne Mikkonen - fredag, 8 oktober 2004, 03:43

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Re: Error message from spell check - 'No suitable dictionary found installed on your server!'

av W Page - onsdag, 8 september 2004, 19:16

Hi Janne & Peter,

I had a similar problem and I have the most recent stable Aspell installed. See the following,

Need Speller Icon and Recognition of dictionary - On Linux
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=11994

Re: Spell ckecker release 2 Now multiple dictionaries allowed
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=11103&parent=57220

WP1

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Re: Error message from spell check - 'No suitable dictionary found installed on your server!'

av Janne Mikkonen - torsdag, 9 september 2004, 00:20

I'm an idiot, that's what only thing wrong

If you check direrectory names in /moodle/lang you'll see they all are in lower case and command aspell dump dicts gives a list like this:
en
en_US
and so on...

Now en_us is not the same as en_US

Like I said, I'm an idiot...

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Re: Error message from spell check - 'No suitable dictionary found installed on your server!'

av Janne Mikkonen - torsdag, 9 september 2004, 01:24

I just made fix for this and it's in cvs (use stable or trunk, same files). Check it out if it works.

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Re: Error message from spell check - 'No suitable dictionary found installed on your server!'

av W Page - torsdag, 9 september 2004, 03:29

Hi Janne!

I just updated the v1.5 site I have the speller on. I got the speller button but the dictionary is still missing on the "popup". I think it may have been too soon after the changes you submitted to CVS. Will update again later this evening (past 6 hours) and see what happpens.

WP1

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Re: Error message from spell check - 'No suitable dictionary found installed on your server!'

av W Page - torsdag, 9 september 2004, 23:50

Hi Janne!

The most recent CVS version of v1.5 I have been able to update to is 2004090600. Will post in Installation Problems forum to see if something is wrong.

WP1

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Re: Error message from spell check - 'No suitable dictionary found installed on your server!'

av W Page - lördag, 11 september 2004, 02:21

Hi Janne!

I still do not think CVS is working. I am still only able to update to version 2004090600.

WP1

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Re: Error message from spell check - 'No suitable dictionary found installed on your server!'

av Martin Dougiamas - lördag, 11 september 2004, 09:45

That date version is updated manually (and only occasionally), it's not necessarily always the same as the current day.

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Re: Error message from spell check - 'No suitable dictionary found installed on your server!'

av Janne Mikkonen - lördag, 11 september 2004, 17:43

Check your spellchecker.php's (/moodle/lib/speller/server-scripts/spellchecker.php) revision number. If it's 1.3 then it's up to date.

- Janne -

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Re: Error message from spell check - 'No suitable dictionary found installed on your server!'

av W Page - lördag, 11 september 2004, 22:28

Hi Janne!

I do have v1.3 of "spellchecker.php" in the path you indicated but the spellchecker still does not recognize the dictionary. I will reinstall the dictionary this evening and see if the script recognizes it after that.

WP1

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Re: Error message from spell check - 'No suitable dictionary found installed on your server!'

av Janne Mikkonen - söndag, 12 september 2004, 01:04

Could you also check from commandline what dictionaries do you have installed aspell dump dicts and put that list in here.

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Re: Error message from spell check - 'No suitable dictionary found installed on your server!'

av W Page - söndag, 12 september 2004, 01:47

Hi Janne!

Right now I am away from my computer [which has the Putty program on it / I cannot use it here]. I will check this evening.

WP1

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Re: Error message from spell check - 'No suitable dictionary found installed on your server!'

av Jeff Wood - söndag, 19 september 2004, 21:21

I have followed this discussion, but still have problems "No suitable.."

aspell dump dicts reports

en
en_CA
en_CA-w-accents
en_GB
en_GB-w-accents
en_US
en_US-w-accents

whereis aspell reports

aspell: /usr/bin/aspell /usr/lib/aspell/ /usr/local/bin/aspell /usr/local/lib/aspell / usr/share/aspell

I am using 1.5 dev 2004091700 on linux machine

Any ideas??

Jeff

PS when I change to $CFG->aspellpath = '/usr/local/bin/aspell'; // *nix in the moodle config.php I no longer get "no suitablke" but no misspelled words are caught

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Re: Error message from spell check - 'No suitable dictionary found installed on your server!'

av Peter Cameron - tisdag, 28 september 2004, 07:24

Finally solved my problem.

Upgraded to Aspell 0.6
Installed new dictionary
Changed path to $CFG->aspellpath = '/usr/local/bin/aspell';

Hope this helps someone else. Thanks to those who contributed.

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