Intalling new dictionaries on cocoAspell

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Hi,

I got iWork 09 but would like to add some Greek spelling dictionary support to it. I asked around and a guy on Twitter offered cocoAspell. I have installed it and looked on the cocoAspell website and found the Greek dictionary but I can't understand how to install it! Inside the folder I downloaded called "aspell-el-0.50-3" are 12 items as seen on the screen shot.
aspell-el-050-3.png

Code:
GNU Aspell Greek Word List Package
Version 0.50-3
2002-09-12
by Kevin Atkinson ([email protected])
Word List by:
  Evripidis Papakostas (evris at source gr)
Copyright Terms: GPL
see the file Copyright for the exact copyright.
Source Verson: 0.03
Source URL: http://ispell.source.gr/index_aspell.html

This is the Aspell word list for Greek.

If Aspell is installed and aspell and word-list-compress are all
in the path first do a:

  ./configure

Which should output something like:

  Finding Dictionary file location ... /usr/local/lib/aspell
  Finding Data file location ... /usr/local/share/aspell

if it did not something likely went wrong.

After that build the package with:
  make
and then install it with
  make install

If any of the above mentioned programs are not in your path than the
variables, ASPELL and/or WORD_LIST_COMPRESS need to be set to the
commands (with path) to run the utilities.  These variables may be set
in the environment before configure is run or specified at the command
line using the following syntax
  ./configure --vars VAR1=VAL1 ...
Other useful variables configure recognizes are ASPELL_PARMS, and DESTDIR.

To clean up after the build:
  make clean

To uninstall the files:
  make uninstall

After the word lists are installed you can use the main one (el) by
setting the LANG environmental variable to el or running Aspell
with --lang=el.  You may also chose the dictionary directly
with the -d or --master option of Aspell.  You can chose from any of
the following dictionaries:
  el (greek)
Whereas the names in parentheses are alternate names for the
dictionary preceding the parentheses.

If you have any problem with installing or using the word lists please
let me (Kevin Atkinson) know.

If you have problems with the actual word lists please contact one of
the Word lists authors as I do not maintain the actual Word Lists.

Any additional documentation that came with the original word list can
be found in the doc/ directory.

So, my question is, which file to I "make"? There are so many files in here and I don't know much about the Mac yet.

Any help is much appreciated
Thanks
 
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Just copy the folder "aspell-el-0.50-3" containing all the files you show above into /Library/Application Support/cocoAspell/
 
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From what I saw on the cocoaspell site, this is a mac gui version of the linux aspell.
Assuming he left the default locations of the various files and dictionaries the same, I would just follow the instructions in the file you posted.
Open a Terminal, cd to the folder where the source is and type
./configure
After it does it's thing, and assuming no errors, type
make
all by itself. It knows what to make.
After it's finished type
make install (note: you might need to use sudo to write to the required dirs)

That should install the dictionary in the proper place.
If this doesn't work, I would email the developer and ask for instructions.

EDIT: All this is assuming you have Xcode installed with a working gcc compiler. Also I could be wrong and all you need to do is what Joun said above.
 

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