Portuguese dictionary empty in Ubuntu 13.10

**lads** · November 11th, 2013

Hello everyone,

I just installed the Portuguese dictionary on Ubuntu 13.10 but no application is able to use it. Checking in the command line it seems this dictionary is empty:

Code:

$ sudo aptitude search aspell-pt
p   aspell-pt                                                 - Portuguese dictionaries for GNU Aspell (old package)               
p   aspell-pt-br                                              - Brazilian Portuguese dictionary for GNU Aspell                     
i   aspell-pt-pt                                              - European Portuguese dictionary for GNU Aspell  
$ aspell dicts | grep pt
pt_PT
$ aspell -l pt_PT dump master
$

Could I be missing some package or is this a bug that should be reported? Thanks.

**lads** · November 18th, 2013

Any hints on this issue are welcome. Thank you.

**lads** · November 25th, 2013

Anyone?

**lads** · December 3rd, 2013

This problem still persists.

**lads** · December 14th, 2013

I finally managed to solved this problem. This is a bug that first appeared in Lucid and persisted with Oneiric. For some reason it has re-emerged in Saucy. The difficulty was then to find a source for the dictionary, which eventually I did. The fix is then:

Code:

cd /tmp
wget http://natura.di.uminho.pt/download/sources/Dictionaries/aspell6/aspell6.pt-20131211.tar.bz2
tar xjf aspell6.pt-20131211.tar.bz2
cd aspell6-pt_PT-20131211-0
./configure
make
sudo make install