For some reason the Eee PC ships with OpenOffice 2.3 preloaded instead of the more current OpenOffice.org 2.3. Since I don’t really need to do much more than basic word processing, that doesn’t concern me much. But I have noticed that there’s no in-line spell checking. You know, the thing that underlines spelling errors in red as you make them?
I figured there was just a package missing, so I went and installed AbiWord, one of my favorite open source word processors. It turns out there was no in-line spellchecking on AbiWord at first either. But then I installed the “aspell” package and it worked like magic.
But no luck with OpenOffice.org.
So I did a little more digging and discovered that OpenOffice.org uses “myspell” instead of aspell. Since the OpenOffice.org build for the Eee has smaller toolbars and fonts, I uninstalled AbiWord and installed myspell and all is right with the world.
So to make a long story short, here’s how to enable in-line spellchecking:
- Add “http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main” to your repository list.
- Open up a console window.
- Type “sudo apt-get install myspell-en-us”
- Enter “y” when asked
- Open up OpenOffice.org Writer and mispell a word.
Good finding… but don’t know why it doesn’t work for me (I’m absolutely a Linux idiot). When doing the installing, it gives me this message:
You might want to run `apt-get -f install’ to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
openoffice.org-onlineupdate: Depends: openoffice.org-core01 but it is not installable
E: Unmet dependencies. Try ‘apt-get -f install’ with no packages (or specify a solution).
Do you know how to soft this? (or better yet, do you know how to install Ooo 2.3 on Eee PC?)
Thanks!
Great, this was perfect. To the previous comment, I had to add one step after adding the repository to avoid the error he sees:
sudo apt-get update
Great, this was perfect. To the previous comment, I had to add one step after adding the repository to avoid the error he sees:
sudo apt-get update