Method to install GNU Aspell (Win32), Dictionaries and Spell-Check plugin, on N++

guy038

Hi all,

If you prefer to use the Spell-Checker.dll plugin, rather than the DSpellCheck plugin, in the new N++ versions, from the v6.8, you need to install, first, the GNU Aspell orthographic corrector, with all the dictionaries that you want to

So the guideline is :

Download the Windows 32 Aspell executable and run it
Download the English pre-compiled dictionary and run it
Download all the other dictionaries, relative to your preferred languages and run them
Download the Spell-Checker.dll plugin in your active plugins folder
Start Notepad++

OK, let’s go, right now !

Click on the link below, to reach the GNU Aspell (Win32) site :

http://aspell.net/win32/

Click on the link Full Installer
Once downloaded on your system, double-click on the Aspell-0-50-3-3.Setup.exe file
Very unlikely, you may get the dialog Aspell 0-50-3 is currently installed. Do you want to uninstall it first?.
Mostly, click on the Next button ( default settings )
Let, preferably, the two options Create a desktop icon and Create a send-to-link options UNCHECKED
At end, click on the Install button
UNCHECK the View Aspell Manual option ( HELP file in C:\Program Files\Aspell\doc\html\Manual.html )
Click on the Finish button to end the GNU Aspell installation
On the site’s web-page, in the Precompiled dictionaries section, click on the Aspell-en-0.50-2-3.exe file
Once downloaded on your system, double-click on the Aspell-en-0.50-2-3.exe file
As above, click, mostly, on the Next button ( default settings )
At end, click on the Install button
Click on the Finish button to end the English dictionary installation
You can delete the temporary folder, called TmpInstall, in the …\Aspell folder
Then, from the site, just download all the dictionaries, that you need
Install them, using the same way than above, with the English dictionary

Now, we, just, have to download the Spell-Checker plugin, from one of these two locations :

http://docs.notepad-plus-plus.org/index.php/Plugin_Central

http://sourceforge.net/projects/npp-plugins/files

Stop any opened instance of Notepad++
As the both links, above, end on SouceForge, we’d better to click on the link below :

http://sourceforge.net/projects/npp-plugins/files/Spell-Checker/Spell-Checker Plugin v1.3.3/

Then click on the SpellChecker_1_3_3_UNI_dll.zip archive, to download it
Open the archive and extract the SpellChecker.dll in the …\Plugins folder of your N++ installation
(Re-)Start Notepad++
Choose the option Plugins - Spell-Checker - SpellChecker... or hit the ALT + CTRL + SHIFT + S shortcut to start Spell-Checker

Et voilà !

The very nice thing is that you can, without any trouble, install, BOTH, the two correctors : DSpellCheck and Spell-Checker, simultaneously ! Done with the quite recent N++ v6.8.1 Wow :-)

Best Regards,

guy038

P.S. :

In case you want to install the DSpellCheck plugin, too, just refer to my post to Violetta Buono, below :

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/6966/spell-checker-plugin-issue-with-v6-8-1-missing-gnu-aspell-and-or-dictionaries/2