[xubuntu-users] Version 12.10 and libre office spell check

[Neil Winchurst]

On 06/11/12 17:20, uteck wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Neil Winchurst <neilwin at drofle.co.uk> wrote:
>> I am currently running an old distro so I am planning to upgrade soon. I
>> have been researching various distros using VBox. One I like very much
>> is Xubuntu. Version 12.04 looks very good and is a LTS version.
>>
>> I have also looked at version 12.10 which is slightly newer, although it
>> has just two years' support. There is a problem however with Libre
>> Office writer, namely the spell check does not work. It does not mark
>> any spelling errors as I type and when I press F7 to check it, I am told
>> that the spell check is complete. It hasn't even started.
>>
>> Strangely this works fine in v 12.04. Has anyone come across this? And
>> if so have they found a cure?
>>
>> And, no doubt, all list members will tell me that Xubuntu would be the
>> best choice!!
>>
>> Thanks for any help,
>>
>> Neil
>>
>>
> You probably need to install the myspell or aspell package for your
> language of choice.

Thanks, have done that and updated the language settings. It now works.

Neil