G'day mate! There are actually a few myspell
dictionaries that the Hunspell engine will happily use. I'm British and I found it frightfully upsetting when a filthy Canadian dictionary kept overriding my native tongue. I don't know why you colonial types can't just learn English rather than trying to break it...
Anyway, you probably just need to install the myspell-en-au
package.
$ apt-cache search myspell-en
myspell-en-au - English_australian dictionary for myspell
myspell-en-gb - English_british dictionary for myspell
myspell-en-us - English_american dictionary for myspell
myspell-en-za - English_southafrican dictionary for myspell
Failing that, there is an OpenOffice addon dictionary. You can download this, extract it (rather than installing it) and copy out the en_AU.dic
and stick it up your /usr/share/hunspell/dicts/
directory.
For clarification, my /usr/share/myspell/
directory is full of symlinks to /usr/share/hunspell/
and /usr/share/hyphen
(part of the openoffice.org-hyphenation
package). It seems —at least in terms of packaging dictionary files— the two projects have been merged which sort of makes sense as Hunspell is compatible with the same dictionaries.