English Dictionary for Libreoffice in LMDE not installed

[narnie]

I have installed the LMDE release one 64 bit edition with all the updating. Openoffice was removed and Libreoffice was installed per the update. I couldn't get it to check spelling until I noticed that the English language dictionary extension wasn't installed in the default. This makes spell check broken in the default install. A normal user might not know this as it "looks" like the English dictionary is installed unless you know to look for the blue check with the ABC next to it. A user who is used to having this set up normally could easily miss this and be stuck with a broken spell checker in the flagship office suite or worse, switch away from this excellent Debian-based distribution. In installing Ooo on Windows and using it in numerous other Linux flavors, the dictionary is automatically included.

I propose that the English dictionary be included as a part of the default installation to ease user adoption.

[Mat (mat-q)]

I had the same problem on Mint 17 KDE. The solution I used was to install the dictionary from:

http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center/american-british-canadian-spelling-hyphen-thesaurus-dictionaries

as it's not included as a package in the repositories. Having to do this is a bit poor given the intended user base.

Others might also want to look at the packages:

libreoffice-l10n-en-gb
libreoffice-help-en-gb
libreoffice-lightproof-en

(replace gb with your country code as appropriate). None of these packages seem to be installed by default either.

[Mattia Rizzolo (mapreri)]

This ain't no problem in libreoffice-dictionaries: the single package is not responsible of getting installed by default in the distribution.