language-support-en not installed by default

[Robert Stoffers]

I think the myspell-dictionary/openoffice.org-dictonaries should be installed by
default, spell check is a commonly used thing in office suites and I find it
strange that Ubuntu doesn't include it in a default install. This would increase
usability and prevent this becomming one of the most FAQs after Breezy is released.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

The recent language-support-XX packages do install the dictionaries for OO.o2
again. So if you chose to download the language support at installation or
enable input support in the language selector, you will get the dictionaries for
the languages of your choice.

Are you sure that you have the latest language support packages? Is anything
missing still?

[Robert Stoffers (robertstoffers)]

This is without an Internet connection, installed from a Colony 3 .iso. After
installation Openoffice.org2 works fine but there are no dictionaries available
when doing spell check (produces an error saying this). Installing a dictionary
such as myspell-en-us 20050823-1ubuntu1 or myspell-en-gb 20050823-1ubuntu1 (or
any of the others) solves this problem, but I think at least an English
dictionary should be included in a fresh default install without having to
download it.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

(In reply to comment #2)
> This is without an Internet connection, installed from a Colony 3 .iso.
> [...]
> any of the others) solves this problem, but I think at least an English
> dictionary should be included in a fresh default install without having to
> download it.

Right, we cannot include all language support packages, but the English one is
indeed on the CD and is supposed to be installed by default. Can you please
check whether you have language-support-en installed? You didn't remove it manually?

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Colin, could this be a bug in the installer?

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Ok, this was discussed a bit in #ubuntu-devel, and it seems that this is indeed
a flaw in the way archive-copier handles dependencies.

[Robert Stoffers (robertstoffers)]

Doing an "apt-get install language-support-en" gives me the following, so I
don't think it was installed by default:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  aspell-en mozilla-firefox-locale-en-gb openoffice.org2-l10n-en-gb wamerican
  wbritish
Suggested packages:
  myspell-dictionary-en-gb openoffice.org-hyphenation-en-gb
  openoffice.org2-thesaurus-en-gb
  openoffice.org2-help-en-gb-1.9.125+2.0beta2-1
Recommended packages:
  language-pack-en
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  aspell-en language-support-en mozilla-firefox-locale-en-gb
  openoffice.org2-l10n-en-gb wamerican wbritish
0 upgraded, 6 newly installed, 0 to remove and 116 not upgraded.
Need to get 1977kB/2840kB of archives.
After unpacking 8438kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

archive-copier (0.3.0) breezy; urgency=low

  * Apply macrology to reduce code duplication.
  * Allow multiple -D/-S options to package-cache-names.
  * Copy language pack and language support tasks rather than individual
    packages, in order to follow dependencies. cdimage has been modified to
    generate appropriate Task headers.
  * Policy version 3.6.2. No changes required.
  * Update debian/copyright with the FSF's new address.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Wed, 31 Aug 2005 23:06:28 +0100