Description of problem:
Cannot successfully enable on-the-fly spell checking mode.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
emacs-22.2-4.fc9.i386

How reproducible:
Every time.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start emacs, visit a .txt file.
2. M-x flyspell-mode
or
1. Start emacs, visit a .txt file, with lines in your .emacs file such as:

(add-hook 'text-mode-hook
          '(lambda () (flyspell-mode t)))
(add-hook 'prog-mode-hook
          '(lambda () (flyspell-prog-mode t)))

Actual results:
Status line shows "Enabling Flyspell mode gave an error", and
spell checking is not active.

Expected results:
Enter flyspell mode, with normally functional spell checking.

Additional info:
One circumvention is to (also) add to your .emacs file the following:

  ;; for Fedora 9 where ispell dictionaries are gone ...
  (setq ispell-program-name "hunspell")

Thank you for making so that (at a glance) ispell works out of the
box.  I have not explored to see exactly how that was accomplished,
but it would be reasonable to use a similar or identical strategy for
transparently allowing flyspell mode to be enabled with the
consolidated dictionaries.

In attempting to understand this problem, I downloaded

  http://www-sop.inria.fr/mimosa/Manuel.Serrano/flyspell/flyspell-1.7n.el

copied it to /usr/share/emacs/22.2/lisp/textmodes/flyspell.el and
renamed the fedora original flyspell.elc.  In a new emacs session,
when flyspell-mode attempts to autoload, the status line displays:

File mode specification error: (file-error "Searching for program" "no such file
or directory" "ispell")

and the *Messages* buffer contains:

Local Ispell dictionary set to nil
Starting new Ispell process [default] ...
File mode specification error: (file-error "Searching for program" "no such file
or directory" "ispell")