English Dictionary for Libreoffice in LMDE not installed
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Linux Mint |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
libreoffice-dictionaries (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
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.
Changed in linuxmint: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
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 help-en- gb lightproof- en
libreoffice-
libreoffice-
(replace gb with your country code as appropriate). None of these packages seem to be installed by default either.