[Mageia-discuss] Spell checkers on Libre Office

James Kerr jim at jkerr82508.free-online.co.uk
Wed Sep 14 12:17:57 CEST 2011


On 14/09/2011 10:00, Alejandro López wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Florian Hubold<doktor5000 at arcor.de>  wrote:
>> Am 14.09.2011 10:07, schrieb Alejandro López:
>>>
>>> As I got not one answer for this question, I presume I asked in the
>>> wrong list. Can someone tell me which would be the right list?
>>>
>>> 2011/9/11 Alejandro López<listas.apl at gmail.com>:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I have my system running in spanish and LibreOffice was correctly
>>>> installed
>>>> in spanish and spell checker is working fine.
>>>>
>>>> However, I usually write documents also in french and english. I'm trying
>>>> to
>>>> install the dictionaries for those extra languages without success. Are
>>>> there packages in mageia for that? I tried with the
>>>> libreoffice-langpack-*
>>>> packages but when I try to select any of them I get this error:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----------------------------------------------------
>>>> Following package cannot be selected:
>>>>
>>>> libreoffice-langpack-fr-3.3.3.1-0.1.mga1.i586 (because
>>>> libreoffice-core[==
>>>> 3.3.3.1-0.1.mga1] is not satisfied)
>>>> -----------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>> and the package is deselected. Needless to say that the libreoffice-core
>>>> package I have installed in my system is exactly 3.3.3.1-0.1.mga1...
>>>>
>>>> My questions are:
>>>>
>>>> - are the langpack packages the way to install dictionaries?
>>>>
>>>> - If yes, why then I get this error message?
>>>> - If not, which is then the right method for installing dictionaries?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>> Alejandro.
>>>>
>> I'm not into libreoffice, but i think it uses myspell dictionaries.
>> The libreoffice-fr package only contains french translations of libreoffice,
>> AFAIK. You want myspell-fr_FR and one of the myspell-en_ variants
>> (en_GB, en_US, en_ZA ...)
>
> I'll take a look from point of view.
>
>
>>
>> About the installation problem i'm not sure, but maybe the forum
>> is better suited than this list for troubleshooting?
>
> Thanks. I thought this mailling list was for this type of questions.
> Sorry for the noise.
>
>

IIRC, libre-office uses hunspell by default, and so you should probably 
try installing the appropriate hunspell-xx package(s).

Jim




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