Installed OpenOffice 3.0 - spellcheck broken [SOLVED]

binro · Last edited by binro on Sun Oct 19, 2008 9:51 am; edited 1 time in total

I noticed back with OOo 2.4 that spell checking no longer worked; I fixed that by installing hrspell and using "eselect oodict". Now I have installed OOo-bin-3.0 and the problem has returned. I found info that dictionaries are now extensions but my locale is en_GB and there is no extra module for that. I issued the following commands:

0n0w1c · Apprentice Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 273

I am unable to spell check with app-office/openoffice-bin 3.0.0 and app-dicts/myspell-en 20060316. I have even tried the Gentoo instructions posted here. I am not sure if the myspell-en package is an extension, the version/date suggests that it is not.

Edit: After further searching of the same OpenOffice site above, I am unable to locate an English Spellchecker Extension.

Edit 2: I have confirmed the myspell-en package is not an OOo 3.0 extension. Further, it appears the English Spellchecker Extension was removed while it was in beta testing and is not currently available.

binro · Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2008 9:28 am Post subject:

It's worthy of note that OOo 3.0 uses a new configuration directory (.ooo3) so this is basically a new, clean installation. How you can package a word-processing application without a functioning spell checker is utterly beyond me.
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albright · Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2008 1:07 pm Post subject:

FWIW, spellchecking works fine in compiled openoffice 3 (for me).
What I can't figure out is how to get the Thesaurus to work for
English (Canada) choice. It only seems to work for English (USA).
Anyone know how to fix that ... ?
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mattsavigear · Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2008 3:31 pm Post subject:

Doesn't work for me in compiled or bin. There is an open bug but no resolution yet.

EDIT: Actually, compiled version works with myspell.
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0n0w1c · Apprentice Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 273

A compressed tarball which is downloaded for the openoffice-bin installation, contains rpms for french, spanish and english.
OOO300_m9_native_packed-1_en-US.9358/RPMS/openoffice.org3-dict-fr-3.0.0-9358.i586.rpm
OOO300_m9_native_packed-1_en-US.9358/RPMS/openoffice.org3-dict-es-3.0.0-9358.i586.rpm
OOO300_m9_native_packed-1_en-US.9358/RPMS/openoffice.org3-dict-en-3.0.0-9358.i586.rpm

Adman65 · n00b Joined: 09 May 2008 Posts: 26

Download this file: http://91.121.116.152/dict-en.oxt and add it via the extensions manager. Voilla! Now you can edit the title to solved

I would write on the wiki, but its down. Hopefully people will find it here. Thanks for the tip in the rpms. I just extracted the rpms and posted the file on my server for easy access to anyone. Enjoy a required feature!

binro · Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 9:48 am Post subject:

I tried it (and the Canadian one for good measure) and it made no difference. When I use the "Tools/Language/For all Text" menu, I can see en_UK and en_CA but clicking them has no effect.

OK, I went into Tools/Options/Language and changed the language from Default to English(UK) and now it works! What a performance.
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0n0w1c · Apprentice Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 273

Adman65, thank you. I downloaded the file and installed it, the spell checker is now working properly.

kernelOfTruth · Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 6:56 pm Post subject:

download the dictionaries via the extension manager like adman65 wrote, this "fixed" it for me too, but I'd rather like it to be handled via portage

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Adman65 · n00b Joined: 09 May 2008 Posts: 26

Same, but the extension isn't even extracted during the emerge. Hopefully they'll fix the ebuild.

Naib · Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 8:41 pm Post subject:

psic · n00b Joined: 11 Dec 2005 Posts: 63 Location: Slovenia

Thanks, the english dictionary seems to be working without problems. Any idea where or when we'll be able to get other dictionaries? I'd need one for Slovene...

Edit: I've found the Slovenian dictionary here:

http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/application

The site also houses tons of other dictionaries and other useful OO extras.