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Scroll down toward the bottom of the page to get installation instructions for ispell.
The raw portfile for ispell 3.3.02 is located here:
http://ispell.darwinports.com/dports/textproc/ispell/Portfile
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The ispell Portfile 51107 2009-05-18 07:50:55Z blb macports.org $

PortSystem 1.0

Name: ispell
Version: 3.3.02
Revision: 2
Category: textproc spelling
Platform: darwin freebsd
Maintainers: nomaintainer
Description: An interactive spelling checker for multiple languages
Long Description: International Ispell is an interactive spell-checking program for Unix which supports a large number of European languages.
Homepage: http://ficus-www.cs.ucla.edu/geoff/ispell.html
Master Sites: http://fmg-www.cs.ucla.edu/geoff/tars/
Checksums: md5 12087d7555fc2b746425cd167af480fe
build.env TMPDIR=${workpath}

depends_lib port:ncurses

configure {
xinstall -c -m 0744 -W ${worksrcpath} local.h.macos local.h
reinplace s|/man/|/share/man/|g ${worksrcpath}/local.h
reinplace s|\"-lcurses\"|\"-L${prefix}/lib\ -lncurses\"| ${worksrcpath}/local.h
reinplace s|\"cc\"|\"${configure.cc}\"| ${worksrcpath}/config.X
reinplace "s|/usr/local|${prefix}|g" ${worksrcpath}/local.h
}

use_parallel_build no

pre-destroot {
reinplace "s|${prefix}|${destroot}${prefix}|g" ${worksrcpath}/config.sh
reinplace "s|-L${destroot}${prefix}|-L${prefix}|g" ${worksrcpath}/config.sh
}

If you haven't already installed Darwin Ports, you can find easy instructions for doing so at the main Darwin Ports page.
Once Darwin Ports has been installed, in a terminal window and while online, type the following and hit return:

%  cd /opt/local/bin/portslocation/dports/ispell
%  sudo port install ispell  
Password: 

You will then be prompted for your root password, which you should enter. You may have to wait for a few minutes while the software is retrieved from the network and installed for you. Y ou should see something that looks similar to:

--->  Fetching ispell
--->  Verifying checksum for ispell
--->  Extracting ispell
--->  Configuring ispell
--->  Building ispell with target all

--->  Staging ispell into destroot

--->  Installing ispell

- Make sure that you do not close the terminal window while Darwin Ports is working. Once the software has been installed, you can find further information about using ispell with these commands:

%  man ispell
%  apropos ispell
%  which ispell
%  locate ispell

 Where to find more information: