Openoffice - writing aids not comming up

[Leon Vismer]

Strange, I have tried sudo apt-get install myspell-en-us but when I goto
and the files exists in /usr/share/myspell/dict however in Openoffice
nothing comes up.

What is your system config, software versions?

--
Leon

On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 11:23 -0700, Frank Merenda wrote:
> --- 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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