[gentoo-user] Re: openoffice 3 broken?

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On Sun, 2 Nov 2008 22:43:43 +0200
Markos Chandras <markos.chandras@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sunday 02 November 2008 06:39:33 Dale wrote:
> > Kevin O'Gorman wrote:  
> > > I've got OpenOffice (compiled), v3.0.0 here.  It appears broken.
> > > I haven't tried a lot of things, but this little RTF file gets it
> > > wedged right away: the console that started it says:
> > >
> > > error - missing word count in dictionary file
> > > Hash Manager Error : 4
> > >
> > > So I'm guessing there's a problem in a spell checker.  Where
> > > would I look to solve that?  
> >
> > This may help:
> >
> > Spell checking is provided through our own myspell-ebuilds,
> > if you want to use it, please install the correct myspell package
> > according to your language needs.
> >
> > Check to make sure myspell is installed correctly, perhaps
> > re-emerge it.
>   
> As far as I remember , openoffice-3 doesnt uses myspell packages. It
> has its own spelling dictionaries. But i am not 100% sure about
> that ...

For most distros (I guess) and Windows and Apple, that's right.  But it
isn't the Gentoo way.  ;)

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