Re: Spell checker doesn't seem to work with Openoffice html/writer

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

J F wrote:

> Spell checker doesn't seem to work with Openoffice html/writer
> on Debian.  Anybody have any good ideas.
>
> I run spell checker and it says "The spellcheck is complete.  OK"
> Even if I type alkdjfkteragkh, it does not flag it as misspelled.
>  
westk[@westk03]:/home/westk> apt-cache search openoffice
<snip>
myspell-en-us - English (US) dictionary for myspell
<snip>
openoffice.org-l10n-en - English (US) language package for OpenOffice.org
<snip>
openoffice.org-thesaurus-en-us - English (US) Thesaurus for OpenOffice.org



westk[@westk03]:/home/westk> apt-cache show openoffice.org-l10n-en
<snip>
This package contains the localization of OpenOffice.org in
English (US).
It contains the user interface, the templates and the autotext features.
(please note that not all this is available for all possible languages).
You can switch user interface language using the locales system.
.
Spelling dictionaries, hyphenation patterns, thesauri and help are not
included in this package. There are some available in separate packages
(myspell-*, openoffice.org-hyphenation-*, openoffice.org-thesaurus-*,
openoffice.org-help-*)
.