Comment 22 for bug 95274

Well, it isn't a permission related problem then. It sounds like we need to add a dictionary without using the graphical interface - we have to add it manually. The question is: how the heck do we do this?

Go into "/usr/lib/openoffice/share/dict/ooo" via the CLI and do "ls". I get the following...

user@host:/usr/lib/openoffice/share/dict/ooo$ ls
DicOOo.sxw en_GB.aff en_GB.dic en_US.aff en_US.dic th_en_US_v2.dat
dictionary.lst en-GB.aff en-GB.dic en-US.aff en-US.dic th_en_US_v2.idx
user@host:/usr/lib/openoffice/share/dict/ooo$

... what's more interesting is that when I open "en-US.dic" it shows a huge list of words. "en-US.dic" appears to be the dictionary. I believe that "dictionary.lst" is the file in OO which tells it what dictionaries to use (As seen in writer aids). I have uploaded "en-US.dic" to Launchpad as seen in this comment. I think that someone should try copying it into "/usr/lib/openoffice/share/dict/ooo" and then edit "dictionary.lst" to make the dictionary visible. Your "dictionary.lst" file works like this:

## !!! BEGIN AUTOMATIC SECTION -- DO NOT CHANGE !!!
## !!! ADD YOUR ADDITIONAL ENTRIES BELOW THIS SECTION !!!
DICT en GB en_GB
DICT en US en_US ## Edit: This is where it makes the US_English dictionary show up. (Read next line)
                                ##(Continued) If you don't have this line (DICT en US en_US) then please add it!
THES en US th_en_US_v2
THES en GB th_en_US_v2
## !!! END AUTOMATIC SECTION -- DO NOT CHANGE !!!

... I don't know if this will work, but it's probably worth a try. It says "DO NOT CHANGE" so I get a feeling that we could screw something up. If anyone is willing to conduct this experiment then I would be very greatful :-)

Good luck everyone.