Spell Checker not working.

[Andow]

I selected hyphen en us, and mythes LibreOffice from synaptic for instillation, it seemed to install ok, Then rebooted, checked spell checker but no good not working. Any advice will be appreciated

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[turtlebay]

You must install a dictionary for it to work from in Synaptic Package Manager or Software Manager.

In Linux, it isn't normally necessary to restart the system when installing software, that is a Microsoft-only idiosyncrasy.

[cabbagetreemo]

You could try to install

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myspell-en-us

and then use the following commands to create links

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sudo ln -s /usr/share/hunspell/en_US.dic /usr/share/myspell/dicts/

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sudo ln -s /usr/share/hunspell/en_US.aff /usr/share/myspell/dicts/

There may be a final setting in LibreOffice but this should provide a system wide dictionary. For example in TeXworks one would find the menu Edit>Spelling and after running the above commands there should be an option for US English. There are other languages available in myspell which you can find in Software Manager.

Note that you probably have to restart whatever editor you use (but not your whole system) to get the links to appear.

[Andow]

You could try to install

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myspell-en-us

and then use the following commands to create links

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sudo ln -s /usr/share/hunspell/en_US.dic /usr/share/myspell/dicts/

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sudo ln -s /usr/share/hunspell/en_US.aff /usr/share/myspell/dicts/

There may be a final setting in LibreOffice but this should provide a system wide dictionary. For example in TeXworks one would find the menu Edit>Spelling and after running the above commands there should be an option for US English. There are other languages available in myspell which you can find in Software Manager.

Note that you probably have to restart whatever editor you use (but not your whole system) to get the links to appear.
[When you say system wide dictionary will that apply to Libreoffice writer and Thunderbird mailer and Firefox browser as well. ]

[cabbagetreemo]

Yes, it will apply to everything but you may have to enable from within specific applications (i.e. my example for TeXworks, I don't use Libre or Thunderbird so I don't know the exact menus you need)

[Andow]

Yes, it will apply to everything but you may have to enable from within specific applications (i.e. my example for TeXworks, I don't use Libre or Thunderbird so I don't know the exact menus you need)
[Hi cabbagetreemo. Thanks for the input, but ill bat on with Thunderbird]

[Andow]

You could try to install

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myspell-en-us

and then use the following commands to create links

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sudo ln -s /usr/share/hunspell/en_US.dic /usr/share/myspell/dicts/

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sudo ln -s /usr/share/hunspell/en_US.aff /usr/share/myspell/dicts/

There may be a final setting in LibreOffice but this should provide a system wide dictionary. For example in TeXworks one would find the menu Edit>Spelling and after running the above commands there should be an option for US English. There are other languages available in myspell which you can find in Software Manager.

Note that you probably have to restart whatever editor you use (but not your whole system) to get the links to appear.
[When you say system wide dictionary will that apply to Libreoffice writer and Thunderbird mailer and Firefox browser as well. ]

[When I entered myspell-en-us in the terminal it returned with "myspell-en-us: command not found" . When I check in software manager it shows myspell ticked, I presume that means its installed?.]

[cabbagetreemo]

to install something you don't just type its name you have to use a package manager, often apt-get. So you would type

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sudo apt-get install myspell-en-us

It is possible that the en-us package is already installed in which case you only need to create the symbolic links

[Andow]

to install something you don't just type its name you have to use a package manager, often apt-get. So you would type

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sudo apt-get install myspell-en-us

It is possible that the en-us package is already installed in which case you only need to create the symbolic links

sudo apt-get install myspell-en-us in terminal, unpacked OK,even though it was shown as installed in software manager before hand. It doesn't show up anywhere not in tools, option language setting, writing aids.
Then look under spell check options, writing aids, user defined dictionary, I see with an X check mark, standard English- Australian, X Technical all, X Ignore all lists.
Its creating the symbolic links that seems to be the issue, maybe its just broken!]

[cabbagetreemo]

Did you type the commands I gave in my first reply exactly as I wrote them AFTER installing myspell-en-us?

[Andow]

Did you type the commands I gave in my first reply exactly as I wrote them AFTER installing myspell-en-us?

[Yes here is the output
User Name-Lenovo-ideapad-100S ~ $ sudo apt-get install myspell-en-us
[sudo] password for rpa3:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
myspell-en-us is already the newest version (1:5.1.0-1ubuntu2.2).
0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 30 not to upgrade.
User Name-Lenovo-ideapad-100S ~ $ ]

I read somewhere that Myspell was designed OpenOffice ?

[cabbagetreemo]

That means you have mysepll-en-us installed, that's the first step.

Now can you post the output of

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ls /usr/share/myspell/dicts/

[Andow]

That means you have mysepll-en-us installed, that's the first step.

Now can you post the output of

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ls /usr/share/myspell/dicts/

[User Name-Lenovo-ideapad-100S ~ $ ls /usr/share/myspell/dicts/
en_US.aff hyph_en_CA.dic hyph_fi_FI.dic hyph_id_ID.dic
en_US.dic hyph_en_US.dic hyph_ga_IE.dic
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Finger crossed]

[cabbagetreemo]

It looks to me like you have set up the symbolic links correctly, whatever you need to do next is program specific. As I said, I don't use LibreOffice so I will not be able to help you further.

[Andow]

It looks to me like you have set up the symbolic links correctly, whatever you need to do next is program specific. As I said, I don't use LibreOffice so I will not be able to help you further.

[I'm thinking its broken,I may uninstall LibreOffice and reinstall, it may fix it.
Thank you so much for your time and effort Cabbagetreemo
]

[Andow]

It looks to me like you have set up the symbolic links correctly, whatever you need to do next is program specific. As I said, I don't use LibreOffice so I will not be able to help you further.

[I'm thinking its broken,I may uninstall LibreOffice and reinstall, it may fix it.
Thank you so much for your time and effort Cabbagetreemo
]

[Andow]

I selected hyphen en us, and mythes LibreOffice from synaptic for instillation, it seemed to install ok, Then rebooted, checked spell checker but no good not working. Any advice will be appreciated

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[Andow]

I selected hyphen en us, and mythes LibreOffice from synaptic for instillation, it seemed to install ok, Then rebooted, checked spell checker but no good not working. Any advice will be appreciated

User name-Lenovo-ideapad-100S ~ $ inxi -Szxx
System: Host: rpa3-Lenovo-ideapad-100S Kernel: 4.4.0-53-generic x86_64 (64 bit gcc: 5.4.0)
Desktop: Cinnamon 3.2.7 (Gtk 3.18.9-1ubuntu3.3) dm: mdm
Distro: Linux Mint 18.1 Serena
User name-Lenovo-ideapad-100S ~ $

[Andow]

I selected hyphen en us, and mythes LibreOffice from synaptic for instillation, it seemed to install ok, Then rebooted, checked spell checker but no good not working. Any advice will be appreciated

User name-Lenovo-ideapad-100S ~ $ inxi -Szxx
System: Host: rpa3-Lenovo-ideapad-100S Kernel: 4.4.0-53-generic x86_64 (64 bit gcc: 5.4.0)
Desktop: Cinnamon 3.2.7 (Gtk 3.18.9-1ubuntu3.3) dm: mdm
Distro: Linux Mint 18.1 Serena
User name-Lenovo-ideapad-100S ~ $

[Andow]

I selected hyphen en us, and mythes LibreOffice from synaptic for instillation, it seemed to install ok, Then rebooted, checked spell checker but no good not working. Any advice will be appreciated

User name-Lenovo-ideapad-100S ~ $ inxi -Szxx
System: Host: rpa3-Lenovo-ideapad-100S Kernel: 4.4.0-53-generic x86_64 (64 bit gcc: 5.4.0)
Desktop: Cinnamon 3.2.7 (Gtk 3.18.9-1ubuntu3.3) dm: mdm
Distro: Linux Mint 18.1 Serena
User name-Lenovo-ideapad-100S ~ $