aspell (mac homebrew) runs, but cannot spellcheck because of missing(?) cset file

Question

I am having trouble with my aspell upon installing it on my new macbook.

Aspell exists, and works in the sense of the executable works:

❯ aspell -v
@(#) International Ispell Version 3.1.20 (but really Aspell 0.60.8.1)

However, if I use it to check spelling, it complains:

❯ cat ~/text.txt | aspell -a
.cset" could not be opened for reading or does not exist.homebrew/Cellar/aspell/0.60.8.1_1/lib/aspell-0.60/

At first I thought it was a flyspell/emacs error, which complains about "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/aspell/0.60.8.1_1/lib/aspell-0.60/ .cset" could not be opened, so there could be a mac-related lineending error? Aspell worked out of the box on my old machine, not sure if that would help.

Am I correct in reading that it's trying to find an "empty" cset, which of course wouldn't work? What should I be looking at here, any help is much appreciated! :)

Answer 1

With macOS 14.4, I have:

$ aspell -v
@(#) International Ispell Version 3.1.20 (but really Aspell 0.60.8.1)

Running:

$ echo My apple is good. > text.txt
$ cat text.txt | aspell -a

Gives me:

@(#) International Ispell Version 3.1.20 (but really Aspell 0.60.8.1)
*
*
*
*

Which seems OK.

So I suggest a reinstallation of aspell:

brew reinstall aspell