Irssi + Aspell on Debian Etch
Like a lot of *NIX geek’s, I have grown to love irssi for chatting on IRC, but have always been aware that my terrible spelling can be a source of irritation to other users of the network. As irssi is a console based application, I thought that there must be a plugin somewhere to get irssi to talk to aspell and help me out with this little problem of mine.
This guide assumes your using Debian Etch (current stable version) and have a base working knowledge or Linux and irssi…
1) Make sure the following packages are installed and at the current version by running the following command.
apt-get install aspell-uk libaspell-dev aspell libtext-aspell-perl
Don’t forget to change the localisation to match your own locale. This should install all the needed parts within Debian to support the the irssi script we are about to install.
2) Download the irssi plugin with the following command…
wget http://www.mimir.ch/mimir/irssi/files/aspell_complete.pl
This will download the script to your current location, this then needs to be moved to your irssi autorun folder, which for me means…
mv aspell_complete.pl /home/kevin/.irssi/scripts/autorun/
Then from within your irssi window type…
/run aspell_complete.pl
And that’s it. Simple huh?
Kevin
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