Arch Linux

archer108

Member

From: Zurich Switzerland

Registered: 2007-08-28

Posts: 59

Openoffice spell checker

on a freshly new arch FTP install my spellchecker on Openoffice 2.3.1 within Gnome does not work at all. Got all the nessacary dictionaries under:  /opt/openoffice/share/dict/ooo installed. Also the Openoffice Dictonary installer ist there. When I run as root: ooodi and locate to the dic. directory, I can not open that directory. chmod 777 of directory ooo does not help either.
When I want spellcheck a document, it tells my "spellcheck done" but acctually it does not do the job.
regards
archer

hacosta

Member

From: Mexico

Registered: 2006-10-22

Posts: 423

Re: Openoffice spell checker

there are pacman packages for spellcheckers the process is really straightforward just use pacman to install them and restart OO

archer108

Member

From: Zurich Switzerland

Registered: 2007-08-28

Posts: 59

Re: Openoffice spell checker

have done all the needed pacman packages, like openoffice-spell-de the spellchecker just tells me after pressing F7 "the spell check is complete"

archer108

Member

From: Zurich Switzerland

Registered: 2007-08-28

Posts: 59

Re: Openoffice spell checker

[Solved]
To fix the problem, you need to go to File > Wizards > Install New Dictionaries

Llama

Banned

From: St.-Petersburg, Russia

Registered: 2008-03-03

Posts: 1,379

Re: Openoffice spell checker

I'm having the same problem too (OpenOffice 2.4). The Install New Dictionaries wizard contains a very limited choice of languages (no Russian language that I need), but even the English one won't install. Any ideas?

archer108

Member

From: Zurich Switzerland

Registered: 2007-08-28

Posts: 59

Re: Openoffice spell checker

yes under the latest Openoffice version you can not install additional dictonary, you have to downgrade to a older version of Openoffice, there it works. check under wiki for downgrade, there is a link where you can get the older version
http://shellpenguin.com/arch/pkg/openof … pkg.tar.gz