ispell bug

[laissezfaire]

I am trying to run ispell but it seems that there is a bug:

running ispell (documentname.tex)
I get an error message saying "Can't open /usr/lib/ispell/default.hash"
Now I know that iamerican package is already installed.

When I go to the /usr/lib/ispell/ directory I see that default.hash is a symlink pointing to
/etc/dictionaries-common/default.hash

However /etc/dictionaries-common/default.hash does not exist.
There is only one file in that directory, which is named "words"

-Is there a way to correct this bug?

[askrieger]

Re: ispell bug

I found the same thing on my machine. Then, I realized that the reason was that I have not installed ispell. I am using Aspell, "a drop-in replacement for ispell". However, Ispell is available in the repos. You must also install a dictionary e.g. iamerican or ibritish, for English.