path to GNU Aspell

- Using Aspell under Windows doesn't work.
- You should never install Aspell inside your Drupal folder, because it hasn't got anything to do with Drupal.
- Check with Aspell's documentation how and where to install Aspell and then enter the absolute path to the executable at Spell Check's config page.

Also see #669918: Have we got the GNU Aspell pathing fixed for Windows users?.

You didn't mention it, but in the past there were some people trying to do this under Windows. There is no check yet to test if it works, so I figured I'd mention it to be on the safe side. Good luck!

If there are no other programs that are going to use it, it shouldn't be in the root folder, but into sites/all/plugins or sites/all/libraries ??!

I guess its a plug-in, so I will put it there..(?)

P.S.: the info on the project page was a bit poor in this perspective and made me looking through the issues list.

Then there is some mentioning of patches:

"A patch for ispell.el for improved Aspell support also available. This patch will notify aspell of the replacements one makes so it can improve the suggestion list in the future. A more involved patch can be found here This one also adds UTF-8 support but will only apply cleanly to Ispell.el 3.7 beta."

?

I'm not sure what you mean.

The discussion when something is considered as:
* plugin => /sites/all/plugins
* library => /sites/all/libraries
* or a server side installation (outside Drupal dirs)

For me it could have some advantages to put it in Drupal's /sites/all/plugins dir, as it then is automatically incorporated in my all.tar.bz2 (that /all dir) downloads for sister websites that have less technical skills and time to install. Also mirroring and bringing the installation over to other servers goes quicker. But maybe it never should be there, or..? (the only program that I would use next to Drupal is Mediawiki)

About the patches I found; don't know what they are..? Those are other types of spell-check programs and have nothing to do with this one, or do they -/might they- have they something to do with the Aspell here and be in some way of value?

Aspel is a GNU application that runs on the computer, and not within Drupal. That's why you can choose where to install Aspell yourself and enter the path to it in Spellcheck's configuration.

OK; haven't done that much server installations; none or maybe a halve one, once... Actually I don't know what to do; I have a host account and the instructions seem to be for a command line instead of Cpanel.
aspell/README:
* ./configure && make
* `--enable-static'
* make install
* The `aspell' program must be in your path in order for the dictionaries to install correctly.
* If you do not have Ispell or the traditional Unix `spell' utility installed on your system then you should also copy the compatibility scripts `ispell' and `spell' located in the `scripts/' directory into your binary directory which is usually `/usr/local/bin' so that programs that expect the `ispell' or `spell' command will work correctly.

Don't understand any of them; the first 3 seem to be commands; I have an option to apply for SSH/Shell access on my host account, is that it, or hasn't it anything to do with this?

Then the aspell program must be in my path; what path?

The last one I can understand. I could check that Ispell and Unix spell for my Bluehost host account and here they give directories, so I should be able to perform these tasks.
=>
http://www.bluehostforum.com/archive/index.php/t-4789.html
Are you certain that they are not installed already? On my box they are at:
/usr/bin/aspell
/usr/bin/ispell

Well, on my account I don't have them under /bin, but that install I probably can perform; just extract the files there.

But what to do with aspell library; just extract it there, rename aspell and then it works, or..?

GNU Aspell Available (after mentioning the dir user/bin/aspell)

Still don't know where to put the additional language files and how to rename them etc. I see there are pot files in the major EU languages, so what extra gives a enbglish or spanish language file?

& what about the ispell patches for aspell in #6 ?

Installing Aspell is something completely different. It's a good idea to add links to documentation to Spellcheck.module, but I won't cover the Aspell installation here. There are lots of good articles about installing *nix applications on the internet. If you don't know what an instruction means, try searching for it.

Won't fixing this, because there is no clear issue.