On Sat, 2006-03-04 at 20:36 +0000, Andy Pepperdine wrote: > On Saturday 04 March 2006 14:41, G. Roderick Singleton wrote: > > On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 18:07 +0100, Samuel Engelking wrote: > > > Andy Pepperdine schrieb: > > > > On Thursday 02 March 2006 21:29, Samuel Engelking wrote: > > > > > I've installed OpenOffice on Ubuntu Breezy Badger, including all the > > > > > required Languages, but there is no hook and ABC symbol infront of > > > > > the languages, even after reinstalling the languages over DicOOo the > > > > > ABC Symbol doesn't apear. I've tried everything I could think of! > > > > > Please Help! > > > > > Samuel > > > > > > > > When you say installed "languages", I assume you mean installed the > > > > dictionaries, not just the language packs. > > > > > > > > You've probably done this, but are the dictionaries in one of the > > > > directories listed under Tools -> Options -> OpenOffice.org -> Paths? > > > > If you installed a newer version over an older one, it may still be > > > > using an old path configuration, but installed the dictionaries where > > > > the new one expects them by default. > > > > > > Yes, I ment dictionaries, I had a look in the directory, where the > > > dictionaries should have been according to openoffice, which was the > > > standard, but they weren't there. When I installed OpenOffice with the > > > Ubuntu CD I chose the dictionaries, but it didn't seem to install > > > them, I've tried again with dicOOo but it hasn't worked. > > > > This may be a case where using the version available via update is just not > > working. May I suggest that you remove the relelase that came with the > > Ubunto distro and replace it with the one from www.openoffice.org. You > > should also repeat this > > operation for any java that is part of the distro and install the > > appropriate one from www.java.com. Retest and I will bet that the > > problem disappears. > > Something similar happened to me some time ago with Suse, and I never got to > the bottom of it. The only way I managed to sort it out was to remove ALL of > the OOo associated packages provided by the distro, to remove all the > OOo-associated user directories (i.e. for both the early and later versions) > and then to install the downloaded version again. Then the dictionary wizard > worked exactly as expected. It looks like some distros try to be too clever.
In all the above I don't see a mention of an actual filesystem path, so there's a lot of guessing going on. Presumably the Wizard put them somewhere, usually inside the user's private OOo directory i.e. ~/.openoffice.org2/user/wordbook There's another thing you might confirm isn't the problem. The standard OOo distro uses ~/.openoffice.org2 for the user OOo directory, however, the (on by default) OOo filebrowser dialogs under Linux don't show hidden files or directories, and there doesn't appear to be a way to turn it on. So if you try to change the dictionary you use via Tools - Options - OpenOffice.org - Paths - Dictionaries i.e. to point at the new one in your user OOo directory, you won't find it. (The Fedora Core OOo distro uses a visible user directory, no-doubt for this reason.) To fix this problem you can change to using the native filebrowser in Tools - Options - OpenOffice.org - General. Uncheck the "Use OOo load/save dialogs" box. Then go back to the Paths options and try to find your dictionary. You probably still need to switch the filebrowser to show hidden files. There are other times you need to access your user OOo directory too, such as editing templates, so changing the filebrowser now will save problems later. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
