[solved] LibreOffice spellchecker does not work, version 3.4.2

beroal · 2011-08-18 06:10:32

It's kind of a stupid question, but I do not know how I can debug this. The spell checker exits immediately after "Tools/Spelling and Grammar…" though there are incorrect words, "AutoSpellCheck" also underlines nothing. I set language in the status bar to "English", "Russian", "Ukrainian" — none worked. I have "Russian Dictionaries 0.6" and "Ukrainian spelling dictionary and thesaurus 1.6.0" in "Tools/Extension Manager…" (no English dictionary, strange). I have these packages installed:

$ pacman -Q | grep -E "libreoffice|hunspell|mythes|hyphen"
hunspell 1.2.15-1
hunspell-en 7.1-1
hunspell-ru 0.99g5-4
hunspell-uk 1.6.1-1
hyphen 2.7.1-2
hyphen-en 2.7.1-2
hyphen-ru 0.1-2
hyphen-uk 0.1-1
libmythes 1.2.1-1
libreoffice-calc 3.4.2-2
libreoffice-common 3.4.2-2
libreoffice-en-GB 3.4.2-1
libreoffice-extension-ct2n 3.4.2-2
libreoffice-extension-diagram 3.4.2-2
libreoffice-extension-google-docs 3.4.2-2
libreoffice-extension-hunart 3.4.2-2
libreoffice-extension-nlpsolver 3.4.2-2
libreoffice-extension-numbertext 3.4.2-2
libreoffice-extension-oooblogger 3.4.2-2
libreoffice-extension-pdfimport 3.4.2-2
libreoffice-extension-presentation-minimizer 3.4.2-2
libreoffice-extension-presenter-screen 3.4.2-2
libreoffice-extension-report-builder 3.4.2-2
libreoffice-extension-scripting-beanshell 3.4.2-2
libreoffice-extension-scripting-javascript 3.4.2-2
libreoffice-extension-scripting-python 3.4.2-2
libreoffice-extension-typo 3.4.2-2
libreoffice-extension-validator 3.4.2-2
libreoffice-extension-watch-window 3.4.2-2
libreoffice-extension-wiki-publisher 3.4.2-2
libreoffice-gnome 3.4.2-2
libreoffice-writer 3.4.2-2
mythes-en 20060306-1
mythes-ru 0.1-2
mythes-uk 0.1-2

I thought that I missed some package due to splitting, then I installed "libreoffice-extensions". I also tried to downgrade to "libreoffice-3.4.1-1" (non-split) (I have no older packages).

Last edited by beroal (2011-08-20 18:34:32)

Baryon · 2011-08-18 13:09:48

I had this problem too (though I was trying it with UK English, German and Turkish). The only way I could get spellchecking to work was by manually installing a dictionary extension from the OpenOffice extensions site: try, for example, http://extensions.services.openoffice.o … dict-uk_UA and search for the others you want. This should give you an oxt file that you can add using the Extensions Manager. Although you say that you already have them listed in the Extensions Manager; so maybe this won't work for you, but you could give it a try.

beroal · 2011-08-20 17:56:57

Baryon wrote:

The only way I could get spellchecking to work was by manually installing a dictionary extension from the OpenOffice extensions site

Thanks for your reply, but this does not work either.

I noticed that "Tools/Options/Language Settings/Writing Aids/Available Language Modules" is empty, i.e. libreoffice does not see hunspell.

$ ls /usr/lib/libreoffice/basis3.4/program | grep -E "lnth|hyphen|spell"
libhyphenlx.so
liblnthlx.so
libspelllx.so
$ ls -d /usr/lib/*spell*
/usr/lib/aspell /usr/lib/libaspell.so.15 /usr/lib/libgtkspell.so    /usr/lib/libhunspell-1.2.so /usr/lib/libpspell.so
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60 /usr/lib/libaspell.so.15.1.5 /usr/lib/libgtkspell.so.0    /usr/lib/libhunspell-1.2.so.0 /usr/lib/libpspell.so.15
/usr/lib/libaspell.so /usr/lib/libgtkspell.a    /usr/lib/libgtkspell.so.0.0.0 /usr/lib/libhunspell-1.2.so.0.0.0 /usr/lib/libpspell.so.15.1.5
$ pacman -Q libreoffice-common
libreoffice-common 3.4.2-2
$ pacman -Q libreoffice-writer
libreoffice-writer 3.4.2-2
$ pacman -Q hunspell
hunspell 1.2.15-1

I deleted ~/.config/.libreoffice .

Last edited by beroal (2011-08-20 17:58:01)

beroal · 2011-08-20 18:34:06

The problem was that I had the old version of "hunspell". Because "firefox-3.6.15" does not start with the new "hunspell". Because some important extensions does not work in the new "firefox". Because… this is Linux.

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hotweiss · 2011-08-21 19:58:54

It didn't work for me either, but then I ran:

pacman -S hunspell hunspell-en

...again and it worked.

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#1 2011-08-18 06:10:32

[solved] LibreOffice spellchecker does not work, version 3.4.2

#2 2011-08-18 13:09:48

Re: [solved] LibreOffice spellchecker does not work, version 3.4.2

#3 2011-08-20 17:56:57

Re: [solved] LibreOffice spellchecker does not work, version 3.4.2

#4 2011-08-20 18:34:06

Re: [solved] LibreOffice spellchecker does not work, version 3.4.2

#5 2011-08-21 19:58:54

Re: [solved] LibreOffice spellchecker does not work, version 3.4.2

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