Howto: Localize OpenOffice 2.1 (OpenOffice in your language)

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Howto: Localize OpenOffice 2.1 (OpenOffice in your language)

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Hi,

You probably noticed that in Bea, OpenOffice 2.1 only supported English. Even if you localize Linux Mint 2.1, OpenOffice 2.1 still only supports English. For it to support your own language, you need to get a language pack:

- Open Firefox and go to this address:
http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/misc/openof ... packs_deb/

- Find all the packages for your language. (Example: For French, there are 3 packages..) and download them.

- Create a folder on your desktop and move the downloaded packages in it.

- Right click the folder and choose "Open in a terminal".

- Type the following:

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sudo dpkg -i *
- Open OpenOffice and go to Tools->Options->Language Settings->Languages and select your language in "User Interface".

- Restart OpenOffice and it should be in your own language.

Clem
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There is not Spanish :( :( :( :( :( . I suposed Spanish is "sp" or "es".
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It wasn't released yet..
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Post by starkey »

Well, I can wait, English is not a problem to me, but I would like it in Spanish :D :D :D :D :D :D
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Post by hairy_Palms »

bah no uk english pack either :( guess ill have to spell check manually for american errors
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Post by Alephcat »

yes, it is annoying that there is no English pack, there was one for 2.0, but I can not seem to find one for 2.1. you can set the default spell check to English, but you can not set everything, some things only have american as a choice.
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Post by starkey »

and how can I create one of these?????
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Hello,
localization of OO doesn
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Post by starkey »

How I can uninstall these, I couldn't, Synaptic shows me that there weren't broken packages
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