Installing a Language Pack

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#1

I am trying to install a few language packs following the procedure described in
http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/installation/linux/

I tried the French and the Portuguese packages on two different computers, one, a 64 bit machine with LinuxMint 13
and the other a 32 bit machine with LinuxMint 14. The exact same results were obtained.

Upon entering the command “sudo dpkg -i *deb”, the computer (for the French language) unpacked the following 8 files:
1 libobasis4.1fr
2 libobasis4.1-fr-base
3 libobasis4.1-fr-calc
4 libobasis4.1-fr-math
5 libobasis4.1-fr-res
6 libobasis4.1-fr-writer
7 libreoffice4.1-dict-fr
8 libreoffice4.1-fr

None of the 8 files were configured

file 1 libobasis4.1-fr not configured because libobasis4.1-core01 not installed.

filkes 2 to 6 filename not configured because libobasis4.1-fr not configured.

file 7 libreoffice4.1-dict-fr not configured because the following packages were not installed.
libreoffice4.1-ure
libobasis4.1-core01
libobasis4.1-core02
libobasis4.1-core03
libobasis4.1-core04
libobasis4.1-core05
libobasis4.1-core06
libobasis4.1-core07
libreoffice4.1

file 8 libreoffice4.1-fr not configured because libreoffice4.1 not installed and files 1 to 6 not configured.

I would appreciate if you could indicate what I need to do to install these language packages to have access
to the corresponding spellers but leaving the user interface as is, in English.

Thank You

Luis F. Helbling

#2

If I remember this correctly, Linux version of Libreoffice use system's
dictionnaries to provide the spellchecks languages. So, you don't have to
install any libreoffice package, just your system's packages (something
like myspell-fr for french dictionnary, for example). This will provide you
with various languages for the spellcheck, but leave the LO interface
untouched​​.