libpspell-dev

Development files for applications with pspell support

This package contains the headers and static libraries for developing applications with portable spell-checking interface (pspell) support. You need this package ONLY if you plan to build applications that link against the pspell static libraries. You do not have to install this package if all you want to do is use the Aspell program to spell-check.

aspell-devel

Aspell is a spelling checker. The aspell-devel package includes

the static libraries and header files needed for Aspell development.

aspell

GNU Aspell spell-checker

GNU Aspell is a spell-checker which can be used either as a standalone application or embedded in other programs. Its main feature is that it does a much better job of suggesting possible spellings than just about any other spell-checker available for the English language, including Ispell and Microsoft Word. It also has many other technical enhancements over Ispell such as using shared memory for dictionaries and intelligently handling personal dictionaries when more than one Aspell process is open at once. Aspell is designed to be a drop-in replacement for Ispell.