exeterdad has package the Arabic Aspell dictionary for VL 5.8. Source code and binary package is in the testing repository:
Master Source:
http://vectorlinux.osuosl.org/veclinux-5.8/source/testing/libs/aspell-dict-no_deps/Package:
http://vectorlinux.osuosl.org/veclinux-5.8/testing/libs/aspell-ar-1.2_0-i586-1vl58.tlzaspell-ar: aspell-ar (GNU Aspell 0.60 Arabic (عربي) Dictionary Package)
aspell-ar:
aspell-ar: Version 1.2-0
aspell-ar: 2006-06-27.
aspell-ar: Maintained By:.
aspell-ar: Ethan Bradford <ethanrbradford at users.sourceforge.net>.
aspell-ar: Gökalp Yapici <alpy_seattle at users.sourceforge.net>.
aspell-ar: Copyright Terms: GPL (see the file Copyright for the exact terms).
aspell-ar: Wordlist URL: https://sourceforge.net/projects/arabic-spell/.
aspell-ar: This word list is considered both complete and accurate..
aspell-ar: .
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