I just installed the Portuguese dictionary on Ubuntu 13.10 but no application is able to use it. Checking in the command line it seems this dictionary is empty:

$ sudo aptitude search aspell-pt
p aspell-pt - Portuguese dictionaries for GNU Aspell (old package)
p aspell-pt-br - Brazilian Portuguese dictionary for GNU Aspell
i aspell-pt-pt - European Portuguese dictionary for GNU Aspell
$ aspell dicts | grep pt
pt_PT
$ aspell -l pt_PT dump master
$ 

Could I be missing some package or is this a bug that should be reported?

Since there's no Portuguese dictionary for LibreOffice 4.1, having one for aspell becomes indispensable.

Thanks.

Update: I installed the pt_BR dictionary and it seems to be functional. The dump master command displays the full vocabulary. So this is only affecting the pt_PT dictionary, precisely the one I need.

Update II: This issue persists in Ubuntu 14.04.

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Update: This fix was successfully tested in Trusty. The dictionary file is updated to the latest version.

I finally managed to solved this problem. This is a bug that first appeared in Lucid and persisted with Oneiric. For some reason it has re-emerged in Saucy. The difficulty was then to find a source for the dictionary, which eventually I did. The fix is then:

cd /tmp
wget
tar xjf aspell6.pt-preao-20150102.tar.bz2
cd aspell6-pt_PT-preao-20150102-0
./configure
make
sudo make install 

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