install danish dictionary in emacs on windows

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I haven't been able to find the help I need on (on dummie level) for installing a new dictionary (danish) in emacs. To be honest I somewhat confused about ispell vs aspell. When typing "M-x ispell-buffer" a spelling control starts using english as default. I can change directory typing "M-x-ispell-change-dictionary" it suggest "dansk" but I get an error saying that the file /.../aspell/dict/danish" can not be opened for reading. I can deduct that the dictionary is not installed - but I cannot seem to finde a guide (step by step) on how to do this.

And then I have a bonus question. I have managed to install flyspell (or is that actually 'installing' as I have just addet the .el file to my emacs load path and loaded in my .emacs file?). This seem to work (wauw), and as I understand it flyspell is using the same dictionaries as ispell/aspell hence solving my probleme above would enable me to use flyspell in danish? Any help is appreciated.

/Kira

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If you are on Ubuntu or Debian system you can install the Danish aspell package from the commandline with

sudo apt-get install aspell-da