Lubuntu 20.04/LibreOffice Lacks Spellchecker

[salemboot]

There is no spell check available in the installed version of LibreOffice.
The "hunspell-??-??" package is missing from the installation of LibreOffice.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: libreoffice 1:6.4.3-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-29.33-generic 5.4.30
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-29-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CurrentDesktop: LXQt
Date: Wed May 13 14:12:37 2020
InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-04-23 (19 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20200423)
SourcePackage: libreoffice
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
modified.conffile..etc.default.apport: [modified]
mtime.conffile..etc.default.apport: 2020-04-23T16:04:30.368000

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

The libreoffice-l10n-* packages don't have a hard dependency on spellchecking dictionaries, merely a Suggests, which explains why they might not be installed by default.
Does the following command do what you need?

    sudo apt reinstall --install-suggests libreoffice-l10n-??

(replace ?? by your language code of choice)

[Geoff Fergusson (geofftf)]

I appear to have fixed the problem with this:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install hunspell-en-gb

Featherpad is still telling me that I need to install a Hunspell dictionary when I try to spell check. It gives instructions that I expect are for KDE.

[Heather Ellsworth (hellsworth)]

I'm glad you were able to resolve the libreoffice issue by installing hunspell-en-gb. The fact that Featherpad isn't picking it up is likely a Featherpad issue that you should report to that project.