Re: aspell - Unknown mode: "nroff"

Kevin Atkinson <[email protected]> Wed, 20 Aug 2014 15:54:50 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnu.aspell.user
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Hi,

On 08/20/2014 03:35 PM, Cook, Kevin J wrote:

> -sh-4.1$ /usr/bin/aspell -a --lang=en_US < dead.letter
> WARNING: Unable to enter Nroff mode: Unknown mode: "nroff".
> Error: No word lists can be found for the language "en_US".

It looks like Aspell is not installed correctly.  It is looking for the 
nroff filter.  More specifically it needs to be able to find the files 
"nroff.amf" "nroff-filter.info" and "nroff-filter.so".

As a work around you could use:

   /usr/bin/aspell  --mode=none -a --lang=en_US < dead.letter

Kevin