openoffice 2.0.3: no available language modules?

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lo-jay · Post by **lo-jay** » Sun Jul 16, 2006 9:27 pm

since upgrading to oo 2.0.3 i can't use spellcheck anymore.
options ->language settings -> writing aids only shows an empty field under

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available language modules

?
has s.th. been modularized?

thanks again!

01mf02 · Post by **01mf02** » Sun Jul 16, 2006 10:12 pm

Same problem here!

tabanus · Post by **tabanus** » Mon Jul 17, 2006 11:04 pm

I'm on AMD64, but I suppose the fix will be broadly the same across arches:

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emerge myspell-en
eselect oodict set myspell-en

I had to put "app-dicts/myspell-en ~amd64" into /etc/portage/package.keywords first. I also have

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LINGUAS=en_GB

in my /etc/make.conf. You may also need to modify that to suit your language.

Obviously if you don't want the english dictionary choose your own.

blackhorse · Post by **blackhorse** » Tue Jul 18, 2006 4:54 am

Thanks for posting that. It works again!

lo-jay · Post by **lo-jay** » Tue Jul 18, 2006 8:31 am

great - that works!

tabanus - if i would like to run several languages,
in my case english and german, do i have to do

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eselect oodict set myspell-language

every time?

thanks again!

tabanus · Post by **tabanus** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 12:23 am

Sorry...I don't know. I've never had to do that, and I only have the one dictionary installed. I had a quick Google around, but couldn't turn up much. Have a play around with the eselect module. Maybe it will allow you to set two dictionaries?

Matt81 · Post by **Matt81** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 12:38 pm

Hey lo-jay,

you can set 2 dictionaries.

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todesengel matt # eselect oodict set myspell-en myspell-de
todesengel matt # eselect oodict show                     
OpenOffice.org configured dictionaries
  [1]   myspell
    Configured language codes from /usr/share/myspell:
      de en

lo-jay · Post by **lo-jay** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 10:42 am

thanks a lot!
still somehow

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 # eselect oodict set myspell-en myspell-de
 # eselect oodict show
OpenOffice.org configured dictionaries
  [1]   myspell
    Configured language codes from /usr/share/myspell:
      en

what do i do wrong?

cheers!

Matt81 · Post by **Matt81** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 1:21 pm

hmm good question, I dunno.

Try to re-emerge myspell-en and myspell-de and try again.
I just tried it with 2 other dictionaries and it was successful.

lo-jay · Post by **lo-jay** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 6:16 pm

well, dunno either. tried but still only myspell-en shows up?

thanks again!

Matt81 · Post by **Matt81** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 2:10 pm

Do you have en and de in your make.conf?

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LINGUAS="de en en_GB en_US

lo-jay · Post by **lo-jay** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 5:14 pm

mine looks like this:

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LINGUAS="en de zh_CN"

thanks again!

Matt81 · Post by **Matt81** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 10:05 pm

Well sorry, I've no ideas left

coolsnowmen · Post by **coolsnowmen** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 5:06 pm

Thanks for the tip, I would never have guessed why my spelling checker wasnt working when I clearly had gibberish
I didn't notice that It wasnt working until my boss asked me why I couldn't spell a certain word...and I remembered having spell checked the document.

sigh,,,, I SHOULDNT return w/o an error if its not using ANY dictionary what so ever....

viduliya · Post by **viduliya** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 11:19 am

coolsnowmen wrote:Thanks for the tip, I would never have guessed why my spelling checker wasnt working when I clearly had gibberish
I didn't notice that It wasnt working until my boss asked me why I couldn't spell a certain word...and I remembered having spell checked the document.

sigh,,,, I SHOULDNT return w/o an error if its not using ANY dictionary what so ever....

I know what you mean. I almost hit the same problem.

I think it would have made a lot of sense to have an error message when you run spellcheck without a dictionary. Specially when they do not pack a default dictionary with openoffice.

kthagen · Post by **kthagen** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 12:40 pm

lo-jay wrote:still somehow

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 # eselect oodict set myspell-en myspell-de
 # eselect oodict show
OpenOffice.org configured dictionaries
  [1]   myspell
    Configured language codes from /usr/share/myspell:
      en

what do i do wrong?

I had the same problem. Doing

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# eselect oodict set myspell-en myspell-fr

Only gave me the English dictionary. Then I tried selecting the French dictionary separately, and that worked for me:

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# eselect oodict set myspell-fr
# eselect oodict show
OpenOffice.org configured dictionaries
  [1]   myspell
    Configured language codes from /usr/share/myspell:
      en fr

I don't know if this is an architecture-specific thing or not. (I'm on AMD64)

lo-jay · Post by **lo-jay** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 10:36 am

yeah - cool - that worked for me too

!

thanks again!

doublehp · Post by **doublehp** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 8:53 pm

I love this topic; helpfull. Thx.

MadEgg · Post by **MadEgg** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 10:13 pm

Right, it didn't work here, found this thread, installed myspell-en, myspell-nl and myspell-de, the three languages I would like spell checking in. But still no spellchecking at all. OpenOffice claims only support for spanish has been installed, which is one I haven't got on my system.

I'm using openoffice-bin by the way.

openoffice 2.0.3: no available language modules?

openoffice 2.0.3: no available language modules?

I almost had the same problem.