Openoffice - writing aids not comming up

[Frank Merenda]

--- Patrick Cherry <patch-ubuntu at dominoid.net> wrote:

> On Fri 01 Oct 2004, Leon Vismer wrote:
> 
> > I installed the ubuntu distribution on an AMD64 and openoffice (1.1.2)
> > works just fine except that when I install a dictionary it does not come
> > up under writing aids and remains empty. No options exists to edit. 
> 
> Me too (I posted to this list a few days ago about this ... 
> http://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2004-September/002413.html )
> 

I had this same problem. I solved it by installing myspell-en-us:

sudo apt-get install myspell-en-us

You will (obviously) have to change the language to suit your needs. :) After I
installed myspell the auto-spell-check and spell-check functionality started
working correctly.

I hope this helps,
-Frank Merenda


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