Nuked spellcheck dictionary when switching from Open Office to Libre Office in 10.04

[nosehat]

A while ago I switched from Open Office to Libre Office on a 10.04 machine, but apparently I did something wrong because now my spell check dictionary is gone. This is not just for Libre Office, but for everything system-wide (Thunderbird, web text boxes, etc.) I've lost spellchecking everywhere.

I probably did something in the wrong order when I made the switch. Maybe I installed LO from the PPA before uninstalling OO? On a second 10.04 machine I made the switch without a problem, so I know it should work. I'm sure I just screwed something up here.

Any ideas where to look to try to fix this?

Thanks in advance!

[ajgreeny]

Make sure you have the aspell, myspell and hunspell installed and that may help.

For any added words in your own personal dictionary from OOo, see if there is still a hidden .openoffice.org folder in your home where the old configuration including dictionary will still be.

[nosehat]

Thanks for the reply, ajgreeny.

I seem to have some libraries installed: libaspell15, libhunspell-1.2-0 and libhunspell-1.3-0. Oops! Could the two versions of libhunspell be a problem?

I don't seem to have aspell or hunspell itself installed though. I don't see a "myspell" package in the repositories, just a "myspell-tools" and some language specific myspell dictionaries.

Do I need all three?

I also have installed libenchant1c2a ("a wrapper library for various spell checker engines")

I do have a hidden .openoffice.org folder in my home folder! I found a file ~/.openoffice.org/3/user/wordbook/standard.dic which is only 53 bytes long and contains 5 words and a bunch of null bytes. Is there anywhere else to look for more words? I'm pretty sure I'd added more than 5 to OO.

Thanks again.

[nosehat]

Solved by simply installing:

aspell
aspell-doc
aspell-en
dictionaries-common
hunspell
hunspell-en-us

Not sure if all of these were necessary, but now it works so I'm happy regardless.
Thanks!