On August 30, 2003 01:56 am, Jacob Anawalt wrote: > Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl wrote: > >>>I can't get the spell checking in open office working - It won't even > >>>let me > >>>select the spell checker under Options -> Language Settings -> Writing > >>>Aids. > >>>I'm running unstable. Anybody have any ideas? > >> > >>Use koffice instead. koffice is more stable and the next version the > >>default file format changes to OpenOffice. > > > >I for myself won't be using KOffice untill it is able to save in MsWord > >format, Excel format etc. Unfortunately I have friends, colleagues and > >clients who do use M$ crap still ;). > > > >Pity nobody knows how to get the spellcheck in OO fixed, I am having the > >same issue here... > > > >Pim > > I just installed OOo. Debian Unstable using dselect. KDE desktop - > trying it out at a friends insistance. I didn't have OOo installed > because a I hadn't needed more than a notepad on this system yet. I > only installed it now because the use X program instead response didn't > seem like an answer to the question even if it did prompt some thought > and comment on the idea. > > Heres what I installed: > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > The following NEW packages will be installed: > gcc-3.0-base kdebase libstdc++3 myspell-en-us oooqs-kde openoffice.org > openoffice.org-bin openoffice.org-crashrep openoffice.org-debian-files > openoffice.org-gnome openoffice.org-help-en openoffice.org-l10n-en > openoffice.org-mimelnk > 0 packages upgraded, 13 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded. > 2 packages not fully installed or removed. > Need to get 71.6MB of archives. > After unpacking 202MB of additional disk space will be used. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] > > After installing I fire up OOo and start typing. I type my last name. It > gets underlined. I type compalning and it gets underlined. I right-click > compalning and I have complaining in the drop down. I select it and the > word is corrected. I undo and choose tools > spellcheck > check. > compalning turns into complaining again. > > I think either something wasn't installed right or at all (maybe > myspell-en-us) or you're not using english and there is an issue with > another language, or something is failing on the update/install so the > spell check fails or you are seeing a different problem with the > spelling checker. > > If it's some other use of the spelling checker, let me know and I'll try > on my system.
Jacob thank you for posting the list of new packages to be installed. I installed OOo along time ago and have just been updating and upgrading since then. My problem was the package "myspell-en-us" was not installed - I guess a dependancy got lost somewhere during upgrading. Everything is working fine now:) thanks again R. Pluschke -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
