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elb

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Registered: 2006-03-17

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French spellchecker install error in OOo3

Installing /opt/openoffice/share/extension/install/dict-fr.oxt produces this message :
Configuration Parser: a com.sun.star.xml.sax.SAXParseException occured while parsing: - {Parser Error: [ line 5]: invalid tokenerror }.
Installing from the web (eg http://extensions.services.openoffice.o … eform1990) does the same.
Note : installing an english dictionary works (though it's mostly useless for me...).

Last edited by elb (2008-10-13 09:59:11)

frenchy

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Registered: 2008-10-14

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Re: French spellchecker install error in OOo3

Hello !

After an afternoon of brainstorming, I've find a solution to resolve that problem !

Rename the folder dict-fr.oxt to dict-fr.zip and extract the files. Open the dictionaries.xcu with your favorite files editor and search for the line 5 : "<node oor:name="HunSpellDic_fr_FR-Classique-et-Réforme1990" oor:op="fuse">". Now remove the "é" (from 'Réforme') or replace it with a "e". Save the file. Re-zip all the files in a dict-fr.zip file. Rename that file to the original "dict-fr.oxt".

And now you can install the french dictionary with the extension manager !

Cheer.

Oops, I realize that with squeeze it's not necessary to rename the .oxt to .zip

Last edited by frenchy (2008-10-14 11:55:41)

elb

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Re: French spellchecker install error in OOo3

Merci !

I will try that as soon as I can.

Eric

elb

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Re: French spellchecker install error in OOo3

I tried with both the dict-fr.oxt provided with the package, and the dictionnaire-fr.2.3.3.oxt proposed on the OOo extensions repository. It goes further than before but I keep getting this message :
Erreur : statut de cette extension inconnu

Though the extension is installed, it cannot be activated...

frenchy

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Registered: 2008-10-14

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Re: French spellchecker install error in OOo3

Oh ! I remember it appends to me one time. The problem is because of the name of the archive when you rename it in .oxt... so live it as "dict- fr.zip" and try to load the extension as this.

y27

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Re: French spellchecker install error in OOo3

I had the same problem, thanks frenchy the solution worked great. No need to rename anything though, if you do it with command-line tools like unzip and then zip -r dict-fr.oxt * it works great.

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