[SOLVED] openoffice 2.2 - no spelling, no auto-complete

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drjimmy42 · Post by **drjimmy42** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 6:44 pm

I upgraded to openoffice 2.2. Now I can't get spell checking working, either explicit or the red underline thingy. I found a blog post that said that in 2.2 you have to set the language by running File->Wizards->Install New Dictionaries but when I run that, nothing happens. It just sits there and stares at me.

Also, my all time favorite feature of auto-complete, where it looks for other words you typed and auto-comletes as you type, is no longer working. I have it enabled under Tools->Auto Correct->Word Completion but it just doens't work anymore.

Has anyone seen these things or know what the poop is going on? Thanks

drjimmy42 · Post by **drjimmy42** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 7:16 pm

I had to do what was in this openoffice forum thread to install the English libraries. and now spellchecking and autocomplete works. Seems like a bug in the ebuild to me.

http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic ... ctionaries

rkidder · Post by **rkidder** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 5:25 pm

drjimmy42 wrote:Seems like a bug in the ebuild to me.

Both the source and the -bin packages have flags that look like this:

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[ebuild  N    ] app-office/openoffice-2.0.4  USE="eds gnome gtk kde ldap pam -binfilter -branding -cairo -cups -dbus -debug -firefox -gstreamer -java -odk -sound -webdav" LINGUAS="-af -ar -be_BY -bg -bn -bs -ca -cs -cy -da -de -el -en -en_GB -en_US -en_ZA -es -et -fa -fi -fr -gu_IN -he -hi_IN -hr -hu -it -ja -km -ko -lt -lv -mk -nb -nl -nn -nr -ns -pa_IN -pl -pt -pt_BR -ru -rw -sh_YU -sk -sl -sr_CS -st -sv -sw_TZ -th -tn -tr -ts -vi -xh -zh_CN -zh_TW -zu" 193,972 kB

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[ebuild   R   ] app-office/openoffice-bin-2.1.0  USE="gnome kde* -java" LINGUAS="-af -as_IN -be_BY -bg -bs -ca -cs -cy -da -de -el -en -en_GB -en_ZA -es -et -fa -fi -fr -gu_IN -he -hi_IN -hr -hu -it -ja -km -ko -lt -mk -ml_IN -mr_IN -nb -nl -nn -nr -ns -or_IN -pa_IN -pl -pt_BR -ru -rw -sh_YU -sk -sl -sr_CS -st -sv -sw_TZ -ta_IN -te_IN -tg -th -ti_ER -tn -tr -ts -ur_IN -ve -vi -xh -zh_CN -zh_TW -zu" 0 kB

I haven't dug through the ebuild to verify this, but I would have to assume the proper LINGUAS flag in your make.conf will grab the proper language module. As you can see, I haven't set it either.

drjimmy42 · Post by **drjimmy42** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 5:37 pm

This may be true, but that fact that if no LINGUAS is set it doesn't use the default locale... mmyeah, that sounds like a bug.

grooveman · Post by **grooveman** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 1:48 pm

Interesting, because I have the same problem, but using the link above did nothing.

It kept saying I was not connected to the internet (which, obviously, I was). Then I decided to download the package separately, and do an "offline" installation. It looked like it worked, but nothing changed in my oo...

opopanax · Post by **opopanax** » Sun Aug 19, 2007 6:20 pm

I was able to get to the "wizard" by following the link above, downloading the document, and running it, and I got spellcheck working.

I have the proper linguas (en, en_us) set, and the dictionaries weren't included on installation when compiling from source (as opposed to using openoffice-bin)

Not a difficult fix, but definitely an unneeded annoyance.