Openoffice - writing aids not comming up

[Frank Merenda]

Leon Vismer <leonv <at> picturenet.co.za> writes:

> 
> Hi Frank
> 
> if you can
> - what is the output of
> $ dpkg -l | egrep '(openoffice|spell)'

fmerenda at ubuntu ~ $ dpkg -l | egrep '(openoffice|spell)'
ii  aspell         0.50.5-3       GNU Aspell spell-checker
ii  aspell-bin     0.50.5-3       GNU Aspell standalone spell-check utilities
ii  aspell-en      0.51-1-1       English dictionary for GNU Aspell
ii  dictionaries-c 0.22.28        Common utilities for spelling dictionary too
ii  gnome-spell    1.0.5-1        GNOME/Bonobo component for spell checking
ii  libaspell15    0.50.5-3       The GNU Aspell spell-checker runtime toolkit
ii  libgtkspell0   2.0.5-3        a spell-checking addon for GTK's TextView wi
ii  libmyspell3    3.1-6          MySpell spellchecking library
ii  myspell-en-us  20030813-3     English (US) dictionary for myspell
ii  openoffice.org 1.1.2-2ubuntu6 high-quality office productivity suite
ii  openoffice.org 1.1.2-2ubuntu6 OpenOffice.org office suite binary files
ii  openoffice.org 1.1.2-2+1      Debian specific parts of OpenOffice.org
ii  openoffice.org 1.1+20030814-3 OpenOffice.org office suite help (English)
ii  openoffice.org 1.1.2-2ubuntu6 English (US) language package for OpenOffice
ii  openoffice.org 1.1.2-2ubuntu6 OpenOffice.org MIME bindings for KDE
ii  openoffice.org 1.1.2-2ubuntu6 English (US) Thesaurus for OpenOffice.org

> - what is the output of
> $ locale

fmerenda at ubuntu ~ $ locale
LANG=POSIX
LC_CTYPE="POSIX"
LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
LC_TIME="POSIX"
LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
LC_PAPER="POSIX"
LC_NAME="POSIX"
LC_ADDRESS="POSIX"
LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX"
LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX"
LC_ALL=

> - then in openoffice under
> tools->options->Language Settings->Languages
> what is your 'Locale setting' and 'Default languages for documents set
> to'

Locale = Default
Default Languages - Western = Englush (USA)
none for others

> - out of
> $ uname -a

Linux ubuntu 2.6.8.1-2-386 #1 Sat Sep 18 09:49:53 BST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux

> 
> I am most probably grasping at straws here ...

I hope that helps!
-Frank