Can't activate thesaurus in AOO 3.1.4 on Ubuntu 12.10

[jimwg]

Greetings!

I've Googled for solutions and most entries are dated and don't work with today's OOo version. I'm running Ubuntu 12.10 with OpenOffice 3.4.1 freshly installed via PPA because it doesn't show on package manager like OOo 3.4 did. OOo operates well except thesaurus icon and menu entry are ghosted. The Extension Manager has English Spelling, Hyphen and Thesaurus set (2010.03.16), and Writing Aids in Language Setting has OOo New Thesaurus checked. I took user advice and downed via command-line a new thesaurus to install but no difference. I did same advice to command-line purge all LibreOffice and OpenOffice and soffice files before doing a fresh OOo install but no change. LibreOffice and OOo 3.4.0 worked well with thesaurus, so is this really a installing flaw of OOo 3.4.1?

Thanks for any advice!

Jim in NYC

[Hagar Delest]

See here first to check that everything is OK: [Troubleshooting] Spell check in OOo 3.x.

Personally, I prefer the install through the official .debs from the sourceforge website, they include everything needed. Sometimes with re-packaged applications some packages are skipped because the author thought it would be already installed. See: [Ubuntu] Installing OOo on Debian and Co.

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