Libreoffice spellcheck not working

[unix_lover]

On Windows for some reason libreoffice has spell checks working just fine but on Linux it doesn’t work at all. I believe this may have to do with missing extensions but then how come on Windows it exists but not on Linux?

Anyways I am looking for English Australian spell checks, anything I can do to get it working?

[Kresimir]

Install hunspell and hunspell-en_au.

A tip for the future, you can see the list of optional dependencies for any installed package by passing the -Qi option to pacman.

EDIT: fixed the typo, sorry about that

[unix_lover]

@Kresimir

Install hunspell and hunspell-au.

unfortunately hunspell-au doesn’t even exist in the AUR

@Kresimir

A tip for the future, you can see the list of optional dependencies for any installed package by passing the -Qi option to pacman.

Cool mate, so like do I type pacman -Qi libreoffice-fresh?

[Xler8]

I had similar problem recently. If you download the relevant language pack for Libreoffice, this doesn’t enable the spellcheck function. Try downloading the relevant Australian English dictionary from:
https://extensions.libreoffice.org/en/extensions/show/english-dictionaries

In Libreoffice menu open Tools/Extension manager, select the downloaded file, then restart Libreoffice

[Kresimir]

Sorry, it’s hunspell-en_au, it’s in the repos.

[unix_lover]

Thanks but I think @Kresimir suggested easily using terminal

[Kresimir]

@unix_lover

Cool mate, so like do I type pacman -Qi libreoffice-fresh?

Precisely… and there you see that is uses hunspell for spell checking. And then you can look up language packages for hunspell:

pacman -Ss hunspell

[unix_lover]

Thanks bro

[Spinnekop]

That;s how I got mine to work.