Writer Dictionary locked on English ? Unable to use French

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Hi,
I use Writer, installed by Zorin OS:
Version: 25.2.2.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 520(Build:2)
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 6.8; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: fr-FR (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Ubuntu package version: 4:25.2.2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1~lo3
Calc: threaded

Unable to use the French Dictionary
French dictionary installed by Extension or
the command sudo apt purge hunspell-fr libreoffice-l10n-fr
It stays inaccessible.

When I run Tools > Spelling,
even if I selected French Dictionary,
I have the message: No dictionary

In the Spelling window, I only can select :slight_smile: English or None

Does the Zorin OS installation locks the dictionary extensions?
Thank you for your feedback

Have a nice day, José

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Hi,

What Zorin does is at installation time it looks at what locale has been selected for the system and removes all other language support not required in LibreOffice.

Have you got Synaptic Package Manager installed? If not it should be in Software but I prefer:

sudo apt install synaptic

Once installed, search for LibreOffice and then scroll down until you find the French Dictionary, mark for installation, then click on Apply.

Hopefully this should sort things out (unless Flatpak or Snap version is installed).

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purge removes Software. When You want install it, You need install to use:

sudo apt install hunspell-fr libreoffice-l10n-fr
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Oups, sorry my mistake, I miss writing the installation in my post :).

I did it again.

jrd10@jrd10-G3-3500:~$ sudo apt install hunspell-fr libreoffice-l10n-fr
[sudo] password for jrd10:       
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
hunspell-fr is already the newest version (1:7.0-1).
libreoffice-l10n-fr is already the newest version (4:25.2.2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1~lo3).
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
  nvidia-firmware-580-580.126.09
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove it.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 96 not upgraded.
jrd10@jrd10-G3-3500:~$

But... it works!!!

Thank you for your time.

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