From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 8 14:56:31 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AD43106568E for ; Sat, 8 Nov 2008 14:56:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail5.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail5.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.7]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EE438FC0C for ; Sat, 8 Nov 2008 14:56:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 6912 invoked from network); 8 Nov 2008 14:56:30 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail5.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 8 Nov 2008 14:56:30 -0000 Received: from lowell-desk.lan (lowell-desk.lan [172.30.250.6]) by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B14D35083C for ; Sat, 8 Nov 2008 09:56:26 -0500 (EST) Received: by lowell-desk.lan (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 734091CE3C; Sat, 8 Nov 2008 09:56:25 -0500 (EST) To: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org References: <200811061813.45150.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> <1226067445.1360.11.camel@main.lerwick.hopto.org> <20081107220233.62215f62@anthesphoria.net> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2008 09:56:25 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20081107220233.62215f62@anthesphoria.net> ("Nikola =?utf-8?B?TGXEjWnEhyIncw==?= message of "Fri\, 7 Nov 2008 22\:02\:33 +0100") Message-ID: <44r65mfequ.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Subject: Re: Openoffice 3.0.0 - spellchecker not functioning X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2008 14:56:31 -0000 Nikola Le=C4=8Di=C4=87 writes: > The OpenOffice.org dictionaries page says: > > IMPORTANT NOTE: From OpenOffice.org 3.0 on the dictionary wizard > is not longer available -- Dictionaries are now available via > the extensions repository. > > [http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Dictionaries] > > So, the OpenOffice.org-3 users are supposed to download .oxt files and > run them. However, I experienced the 'bad transfer url' problem with all > extension files; this was reported on FreeBSD mailing lists in the past > with no available solution. > > Happily, the instruction from the same page (DictOOo-Wizard, intended > for OpenOffice.org-2) worked just fine in my OpenOffice-3. I downloaded > > http://ftp.services.openoffice.org/pub/OpenOffice.org/contrib/dictionar= ies/dicooo/DicOOo.sxw > > and it worked like a charm, installing Hunspell Spellchecker module and > dictionary files. I had the same experience. Note that to install the dictionaries for all users, I needed write access to=20 /usr/local/openoffice.org-3.0.0/openoffice.org/basis3.0/share/dict/ooo and to some of the files inside of it. --=20 Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/