Just for completeness I give below the text of a message I recently received concerning my original problem.
Graham "Hi, Sorry, I know it was 2 yeas ago but today, I had the same problem as you with the installation of a french dictionnary on my libreoffice. Just to let you know the solution : sudo apt-get install python3-uno I don't remember how to post on NG. If you can post the solution, i'm pretty sure it will help someone one day :) Regards (et bonne journée si tu parles Français ;) ) Sam" On 3 July 2014 at 16:10, Tom Davies <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi :) > Probably not something stupid but things do go a bit funny from time to > time. > > Even if it was user-error it's not necessarily that you did something that > thousands or millions of others haven't done countless times. No need to > beat yourself up about it. The main thing is that you fixed it, so > congrats for that. > > Also sometimes we find a problem suddenly appears that has never happened > before but that suddenly happens to several users for no readily apparent > reason and then suddenly stops happening just as mysteriously. > > These problems are far from unique to LO. I've seen it happen to loads of > different software. My fav was installing Sage to around 10 machines for a > training session and despite doing the same thing each time the 7th decided > to install into the wastebin rather than "Program Files". [shrugs] > > Congrats and regards from > Tom :) > > > On 3 July 2014 08:57, Graham Luffrum <[email protected]> wrote: > >> In the end I solved the problem using the sledgehammer approach, i.e. by >> completely removing LO (version 4.2.4 from the Linux Mint repository) from >> my laptop and then installing 4.2.5.2 from the LO website. Given nobody >> else seemed to have encountered the same problem, I assumed that I had done >> something stupid and hence brought out the sledgehammer. >> >> Thanks anyway, >> >> Graham >> >> >> On 1 July 2014 16:25, Tom Davies <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi :) >>> Sorry no response earlier! Were you able to fix this? >>> >>> I think the best plan might have been to >>> * post a bug-report >>> * ask the L10n mailing list (international coordination for translators >>> of all languages) and/or the French Users List to see if others had the >>> same problem >>> * go back to an earlier version >>> >>> It's generally best to do at least 2 of those sorts of options so that >>> other people do hear of the problem and may do something to follow-up so >>> that it's got more chance of being fixed in a future release. >>> Regards from >>> Tom :) >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On 26 June 2014 09:25, Graham Luffrum <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> I recently updated LO to Version 4.2.4.2 (Build 420m0(Build:2)) from the >>>> Linux Mint repositories (I am using Linux Mint 17) and tried installing >>>> a >>>> new extension. The installation did not complete and I got the error >>>> message >>>> >>>> "ImplementationRegistration::registerImplementation() - The service >>>> com.sun.star.loader.Python cannot be instantiated". >>>> >>>> The extension is a French dictionary. On trying an Italian dictionary I >>>> had >>>> no problem. I also tried installing the French dictionary extension from >>>> AOO, but got the same error message. I have tried renaming my user >>>> profile, >>>> but that made no difference. >>>> >>>> Has LO 4.2.4.2 got something against the French language or is the >>>> problem >>>> somewhere else? Any hints would be welcome. >>>> >>>> Graham >>>> >>>> -- >>>> To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] >>>> Problems? >>>> http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >>>> Posting guidelines + more: >>>> http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >>>> List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ >>>> All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be >>>> deleted >>>> >>> >>> >> > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
