ChangeLog
2024-07-09 - 0.60.4 -> 0.60.8.1
- Added Wikipedia link
- Added Git repository link
- Updated Slackware package versions list adding 14.0, .1,
.2 and 15.0, removing all older
- Removed gawk, sed, grep links - they're required by nearly
everything, don't even list them individually any more
- Added link to gettext HOWTO
- Added alternate download options
Dec 16, 2005 - 0.60.3 -> 0.60.4
- Added sha1sum for the dictionary
Sep 9, 2005 - 0.60.2 -> 0.60.3
- Added sha1sum
- Run chown -R root:root on the source directory when
$UID = 0 (when you're root)
- Rearranged options to shut up new version of find
- Added missing call to su when installing dictionary
May 10, 2005 - Changed download URL from ftp to http
- Removed make, gcc, binutils, and fileutils/coreutils links
- Moved source directory (see note <a href="howtos.php?msd">here</a>)
- Changed md5sum verification to output OK (or not)
- Added note about versions that come with Slackware
Dec 21, 2004 - 0.60 -> 0.60.2
Sep 30, 2004 - 0.50.5 -> 0.60
- Added " or coreutils" to the fileutils prerequisite
- Added md5sum verification of tarball for those that don't
have gpg
- Updated gcc prerequisite with >= 2.95
- Added a note about dictionaries for other languages
Aug 10, 2004 - en dictionary update 0.51-1 -> 6.0-0 for aspell 5
Mar 15, 2004 - en dictionary update 0.51-0 -> 0.51-1
- Added gpg verification of the dictionary tarball
- Replaced sha1sum verification of the tarball with
md5sum, changed the link from textutils to coreutils
Mar 9, 2004 - 0.50.4.1 -> 0.50.5
Nov 11, 2003 - Changed the download URL back to gnu.org
- Put gpg verification back in there
Oct 16, 2003 - 0.50.3 -> 0.50.4.1
- Removed sha1sum and gpg verification temporarily
Aug 7, 2003 - Slack 9 has packages for aspell, added 'removepkg aspell
aspell-en'
- Changed prefix to /usr, added notes about cleaning up
old /usr/local installed versions
- Replaced getting ftp.gnu.org's sha1sums file and gpg
verifying it with the actual sha1sum
- Create ~/installed/aspell with mode 700
- Added sha1sum link to the textutils howto
- Added cleanup of /usr/local/src/aspell-* and
~/installed/aspell-* too
Jul 26, 2003 - Modernized the howto, fixed the download URL for the
dictionary (it's in the dict subdir now)
Jan 3, 2003 - Split up aspell and dictionary installation
- Dictionary: 0.50-2 -> 0.51-0
Nov 25, 2002 - 0.50.2 -> 0.50.3
- Updated previous version removal
- Now using the site-wide sha1sums from the root of
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/ (because they removed the ones in
/gnu/aspell/)
- Added cleanup of old aspell/pspell libs
Oct 2, 2002 - First entry