> I run a test again, I was not correct, ispell-change-dictionary offers dictionaries different from English, namely 

>     1. spanish

>     2. And french, including the swiss variant,

>     3. But not German, also the german dictionary can be selected in the command line. Very strange indeed

As suggested in
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15346723/emacs-and-ispell-error-loading-german8
I had to run 

 sudo apt-get aspell-de

So it was not enough just to install the dictionaries.

Sorry for the noise.


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