Ispell Issues

Hi Folks, One of my users complained that ispell wasn't installed on his Leap 15.5 system.  So I ran "zypper in ispell" for him using the default ispell-american dictionary.  But when run it complains: "Can't open /usr/lib/ispell/english.hash" The hashes are apparently built with the "buildhash" program. Apparently this wasn't run as part of the zypper process.  When run manually it prompts for paths/files and things.  Rather than start guessing what it needs I thought I run the question by the experts here. Note that ispell works okay on Leap 15.5 systems upgraded from 15.4.  It only fails on 15.5 installed from scratch. But it works on a Leap 15.6 system upgraded from 15.5, 15.4, 15.3...  Go figure. Regards, Lew