Ralph,

I am having a problem with the dictionary. The spell checker flags all words 
in the document as wrong, which suggests that it does not have a valid 
dictionary. I checked the Tools->options->OpenOffice.org->Paths and the entry 
for Dictionary has the path 
/usr/share/OpenOffice.org641/share/wordbook/english. That directory has the 
following listing:

ls -la /usr/share/OpenOffice.org641/share/wordbook/english/
total 3740
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Mar  9 18:34 .
drwxrwxr-x    3 root     root         4096 Mar  9 18:32 ..
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          786 Dec 20 06:00 soffice.dic
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          666 Dec 20 06:00 sun.dic
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      3284160 Dec 20 06:00 th_en_US.dat
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       517205 Dec 20 06:00 th_en_US.idx

Those are not much of a dictionary, no wonder it flags all words. Can I use 
the ispell dictionary? I have the following:

ls -l /usr/lib/ispell/
total 4068
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           17 Oct  8 04:07 american.hash -> 
americanmed+.hash
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       985536 Jun 28  2001 americanmed+.hash
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           16 Oct  8 04:07 british.hash -> 
britishmed+.hash
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       998400 Jun 28  2001 britishmed+.hash
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root      2156688 Jun 28  2001 britishxlg.hash
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         5733 Jun 28  2001 english.aff
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           17 Oct  8 04:07 english.hash -> 
americanmed+.hash

The format is not the same as those that came with Open Office. Ispell is 
binary. Are you using a dictionary?

Thanks,

Seedkum

On Saturday 09 March 2002 05:45 pm, Ralph Slooten wrote:
> OK, You downloaded and unpacked the tar.gz file... there should be
> several files in the unzipped folder, or not? Well, there is a setup
> file... sorry, not install... my appologies.
>
> Try a "./setup /net" and the rest should be pretty straight forward. I
> canot remember if the "/net" funtion is well documented, but it exists
> from StarOffice, and it still used in the OopenOffice.org. You will have
> to install this as root.
>
> One thing I must add... I had a big problem in the beginning where I
> could not read the install screen. I found out that this had to do with
> Abiword (some arial font that was contained in it), and uninstalling it
> first fixed everything :-)
>
> Ok, once installed, let's say in /usr/share/openoffice.org641 (I have no
> idea what 4.1 version you are referring to?), as a normal user type
> /usr/share/openoffice.org641/setup and it should install several files
> into your home directory. There are needed for your personal settings.
> In the folder created there are shortcuts to openoffice and so on. I
> think the rest is pretty straight forward.
>
> The version I use is :
> http://sf1.mirror.openoffice.org/641c/install641C_linux_intel.tar.gz
>
> but others should work too.
>
> Greetings
> Ralph
>
> Seedkum Aladeem wrote:
> | Ralph,
> |
> | You mentioned:
> |
> | "Do an "./install /net" if you want to use it for several users and don't
> | want to install a separate version in each users $HONE."
> |
> | I looked at the "install" man pages and there was no mention of the
>
> "/net"
>
> | switch. The man page said it was a file copy utility, all be it a more
> | sophisticated one. The one I have is version 4.1.  What is this "install"
> | program you have in mind?
> |
> | I did the down load, the unzip, the untar and I am ready for the next
>
> step.
>
> | Thanx,
> |
> | Seedkum
> |
> | On Saturday 09 March 2002 03:51 pm, Ralph Slooten wrote:
> |>Well, no, but you can always just delete the folder where it is
> |>installed :-) In my case /usr/share/openoffice ... the shortcuts where
> |>it is installed will be added to your local install directory (for each
> |>user about 3 MB's in their $HOME somewhere...). There are no other
> |>shortcuts or files installed anywhere else.
> |>
> |>Hope this helps,
> |>
> |>Ralph
> |>
> |>Seedkum Aladeem wrote:
> |>| Does it also come with an uninstall utility?
> |>|
> |>| Thanks,
> |>|
> |>| Seedkum
> |
> | ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> |
> | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
> | Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? 
Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Reply via email to