ubuntu-users Digest, Vol 8, Issue 177

[Peter Garrett]

On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 08:05 +1000, Colin McDermott wrote:
> I am using icewm with Ubuntu (server install). My open office
> spellcheck 
> is not working at all.
> 
> There has been google help on Gnome and KDE on how to specify a 
> different dictionary. However it is all graphical system based (ie go
> to 
> settings and click on this).
> 
> Does anyone know how to change the office dictionary locality from
> the 
> terminal.
> 
> I have installed aspell.

Not quite sure if this is what you mean, but I suggest you do

apt-cache search myspell | less

Quite a few dictionaries there :) You will also see language packages
for Open Office.

It seems the Open Office dictionaries use myspell, not aspell

HTH

Peter