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<h3 class="section">5.1 Using <samp><span class="command">aspell-import</span></samp></h3>
<p>The <samp><span class="command">aspell-import</span></samp> Perl script will look for old personal
dictionaries and will import them into GNU Aspell. It will look for
both Ispell and Aspell ones. To use it, just run it from the command
prompt. If you get an error about <samp><span class="file">/usr/bin/perl</span></samp> not being
found, then instead try <samp><span class="command">perl </span><var>bindir</var><span class="command">/aspell-import</span></samp>. When
running the script if you get a message like:
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Error: No word lists can be found for the language "de".
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<p>This means that you have not installed support for the given language,
in this case <code>de</code> for German. To rectify the situation download
and install a dictionary designed to work with GNU Aspell 0.50 or
better.
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