Re: OpenOffice.org - how to install additional languages?

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 01 Apr 2011 16:32:16 +0200, Klistvud wrote:

> Dne, 01. 04. 2011 15:30:37 je Camaleón napisal(a):

>> Hum... Does italian appears under Tools/Language/* (any of the submenus
>> here)? :-?
> 
> Yes it does. If I activate the spell-checker (F7) in Writer, it just
> says "Spell Checking done", without actually doing any spell checking.
> In the dialog window, the "Language" drop down menu is empty as if the
> language wasn't installed. I've discovered now that it is the same with
> my native language, Slovenian. If I change the document language to US
> English, otoh, everything works as expected: misspelled words get
> underlined in red, and pressing F7 does a thorough spell-check. So, the
> languages seem to be set up correctly, but their spell checkers seem to
> be missing. US English must be the only spell-checker that's installed.
> Installing openoffice.org-l10n-sl and openoffice.org-l10n-it achieved
> nothing.

Check your "thesaurus" packages (dpkg -l | grep -i thesaurus) and look 
for the OOo's italian one ("-i10n" packages are mostly for the UI -
localization-).

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón