Spell check does not check spelling.

[Mike Williamson]

To reproduce: Install 12.04, open libreoffice writer, mash keyboard with palm. Press F7.

Expected: to have spell checker check spelling.

Result: Spell check window appears with modal dialog stating "The spellcheck is complete". No errors are found.

mike@sleepycat:~$ apt-cache policy libreoffice
libreoffice:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 1:3.5.2-2ubuntu1
  Version table:
     1:3.5.2-2ubuntu1 0
        500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages

mike@sleepycat:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu precise (development branch)
Release: 12.04

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Zookalicious (chrishylands)]

I can confirm this, spell check is not working for me either.

[Zookalicious (chrishylands)]

Sorry, correction. My bug appears to be different. Red lines do not show up, and right clicking a word does not give you options to replace it, but pressing F7 and clicking "yes" to the dialogue box that asks if I want to start from the beginning does in fact run through the incorrectly spelled words. I'll be opening a new bug since spell check does not work properly on my install as well.

[linx (vinodkbg)]

Installing myspell-en-gb (for English GB) solved the problem for me.

sudo apt-get install myspell-en-gb

[Matt Pharoah (mpharoah)]

myspell didn't work (was already installed), but installing hunspell-en-ca did (that's for Canadian spelling, replace en-ca with whichever language pack is appropriate for you, most likely en-ca, en-us. I don't think there's a British English one for hunspell though.

Then restart LibreOffice.

[Mike Williamson (sleepycat)]

I really feel like this is a pretty core piece of functionality for a word processor. As such this should really work "out of the box" as it were. Should this bug be filed against the installer for not providing the appropriate localization packages to make this feature work?

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Mike Williamson, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu better. Please execute the following command, as it will automatically gather debugging information, in a terminal:
apport-collect 981844
When reporting bugs in the future please use apport by using 'ubuntu-bug' and the name of the package affected. You can learn more about this functionality at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReportingBugs.

This is not reproducible in Xubuntu 32-bit.

lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu precise (development branch)
Release: 12.04

apt-cache policy libreoffice-writer
libreoffice-writer:
  Installed: 1:3.5.2-2ubuntu1
  Candidate: 1:3.5.2-2ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 1:3.5.2-2ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status