Libreoffice doesn't have a dictionary?

Issues & Assistance
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Writing this down in case anyone else has this problem.

First noticed when using writer, LibreOffice didn’t have a dictionary and couldn’t spell check.

I tried changing document language, installing adons, reinstalling libreoffice but all to no effect, Libreoffice couldn’t spell check.

Finally I uninstalled the cachy version and used Shelly to install the flatpak version. This fixed the issue entirely. Not sure on the original cause though.

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Hi, you have to download the dictionary’s files and manual install via extension menu: GitHub - FaridZelli/LibreOffice-dictionaries: Ready-to-install dictionary extensions in OXT archives · GitHub, search en.oxt

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That’s good to know. Any idea why that’s not in the cachy version?

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I have hunspell installed. Since I didn’t install it myself I’m assuming it was there beforehand. I’ll go ahead and reinstall cachy libreoffice and add a few from that page.

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After some messing around it looks like I don’t have a default language in cachy? Maybe I skipped something when installing. I’ll dig more later

  • re-installed cachy libre office
    • same issue: “No dictionary available”.
  • installed aspell through shelly-cachy
    • no change
  • installed nuspell, shelly-cachy restarted writer
    • no change
  • restarted os
    • no change
  • installed nuspell shelly-flatpak
    • no change
  • Checking spell check in other apps
    • thunderbird is good
    • firefox is good
    • kwrite
      • tools→spelling→spelling does nothing,
      • autocheck does nothing
      • in settings→ editing → spellcheck there are no options in the dropdown for default language?
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Found the root cause, looks like hunspell needed to be installed via terminal.

sudo pacman -Syu sonnet hunspell hunspell-en_us

thanks @HardCode4All