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

[Chris Frey]

Thanks for sharing!  But that's weird... I had hunspell-en-us
(and a huge pile of others too) but it didn't work.  Maybe
hunspell-en-ca was the missing key.

- Chris


On Fri, May 29, 2026 at 09:46:44PM -0400, William Park via kwlug-disc wrote:
> *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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