How do I set LibreOffice to spellcheck in British English? When I set it to BE now, it doesn't spellcheck anything. I'm using the latest LibreOffice in Ubuntu 17.04.
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How did you set it ? – Panther Jul 11 '17 at 15:32
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Have you installed the `hunspell-en-gb` package? – Gunnar Hjalmarsson Jul 11 '17 at 15:39
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1@bodhi.zazen Options > Language Settings > Languages. Regarding your marking my question as duplicate, the dictionaries listed in the first answer are from 2012 and there are no British English dictionary extensions in the link that the last answer gave. The middle answer is what I already did. – Amolith Jul 11 '17 at 15:40
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1As your google is broken, dictionaries here - https://extensions.libreoffice.org/extensions/english-dictionaries . This is a duplicate as explained in the link I indicated, British dictionary is NOT included in the ubuntu package and must be downloaded fro libreoffice site. @GunnarHjalmarsson - As far as I know, libreoffice uses its own dictionaries and not hunspell – Panther Jul 11 '17 at 15:42
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@bodhi.zazen: What's packaged in `hunspell-en-gb` is precisely those LO extensions. Its source package is [libreoffice-dictionaries](https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice-dictionaries). So there is no reason to point users to the LO site for this purpose. – Gunnar Hjalmarsson Jul 11 '17 at 16:05
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@GunnarHjalmarsson - So you should post that as an answer rather then a comment. – Panther Jul 11 '17 at 16:06
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@bodhi.zazen: Done. – Gunnar Hjalmarsson Jul 11 '17 at 16:13
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1since this one has the updated answer now, I am voting to close the other one as a duplicate of this one – Zanna Jul 12 '17 at 16:02
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@Zanna: Too late unless we reopen this one. – Gunnar Hjalmarsson Jul 13 '17 at 22:02
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The simplest way to enable British spell checking in LibreOffice on recent Ubuntu versions is to install the hunspell-en-gb package.
sudo apt install hunspell-en-gb
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