[kwlug-disc] LibreOffice Spelling Check doesn't work

[William Park]

*Solution*:  After installing "hunspell-en-us" and "hunspell-en-ca", 
spell check works.  I see the red wavy line.

I came across "hunspell" a lot in my search, and I thought it was just 
Hungary dictionary, so I skimmed over it.  Well, it turns out, Yes, it 
started out as Hungary spell checker.  Now, it's generic, and 
"hunspell-*" modules are used by other softwares for spelling check.


On 2026-05-29 05:45, Chris Frey wrote:
> On Thu, May 28, 2026 at 09:43:05PM -0400, William Park via kwlug-disc wrote:
>> LibreOffice 26.2.3 spelling check doesn't work in CachyOS, but it works in
>> Kubuntu 26.04.  I checked LibreOffice help, and all the configuration is
>> correct.  So, it must be something system.
>>
>> Has anyone experienced this?
> Yes, on my Debian Bookworm with LibreOffice 7.4.7.2.
>
>
>> How did you solved it?
> I thought at first I needed more package installed, but even with a
> large whack of libre* packages, it didn't work.
>
> But if I click Tools | Spelling... and then the Options button in that
> dialog, I get option to "Get more dictionaries online..." at the bottom. I installed English and the Oxford dictionary and 
> closed the dialog. These ended up under ~/.config/libreoffice/ 
> somwehere. Then I clicked Tools | Language | For all Text | English 
> (USA). There was a Canada option too, but it didn't work. The USA one 
> worked, immediately showing red squiggly underlines in my test 
> document. Good luck. It seems a bit fiddly. - Chris 
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