Comment 13 for bug 261596

duncan@duncan-laptop:~$ ls -l /usr/share/myspell/dicts
total 22464
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 129761 2008-09-30 00:14 DicOOo.sxw
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 2008-09-30 20:20 dictionary.lst -> /etc/openoffice/dictionary.lst
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2008-09-26 23:08 en-AU.aff -> en_AU.aff
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2008-09-26 23:08 en-AU.dic -> en_AU.dic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 27828 2008-10-06 17:42 en_GB.aff
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2008-10-07 08:42 en-GB.aff -> en_GB.aff
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 527499 2008-10-06 17:42 en_GB.dic
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2008-10-07 08:42 en-GB.dic -> en_GB.dic
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2008-09-26 23:08 en-US.aff -> en_US.aff
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2008-09-26 23:08 en-US.dic -> en_US.dic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 27519 2008-10-06 17:42 en_ZA.aff
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 594430 2008-10-06 17:42 en_ZA.dic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18597793 2008-10-06 17:42 th_en_US_v2.dat
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3044762 2008-10-06 17:42 th_en_US_v2.idx
duncan@duncan-laptop:~$ dpkg -l myspell-en-us
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
rc myspell-en-us 1:2.4.0-2ubunt English_american dictionary for myspell
duncan@duncan-laptop:~$

Could that be part of the problem? I'll try an update again in a few hours and do this again.