[Solved] French Language Pack - Already Installed

[psom0ne]

Hello everyone! Newbie here.

I used Open Office years ago but have switched back over. I'm having difficutly installing the French language pack. I went to the page, selected the French lanugage pack, but - in French - the installer tells me that I already have it installed. Clearly the installer is seeing my version of Open Office. So, I downloaded the .exe installer from (https://www.openoffice.org/download/other.html#aoo). I must be overlooking something quite simple, but what? Is there actual command line code that I must do myself or...? I'm just not sure. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

TIA

psom0ne

[Hagar Delest]

What's the problem exactly? The interface is not in French?
If you've done the main installation with another language, then you need to change the language from within AOO, that is Tools>Options>Language settings>Languages and the select French for the User interface field.

Please add [Solved] at the beginning of the title in your first post (top of the topic) with the *EDIT button if your issue has been fixed.

[psom0ne]

Thanks for the quick reply. You're correct. The interface is not in French. I installed AOO in English (my primary language) and want to add French (my second language). I downloaded the French language pack from the link (https://www.openoffice.org/download/other.html#aoo) as mentioned above, but when I tried installing it, the dialog tells me that it (what I thought was the language pack) had already been installed and it terminates any further options. Sorry to be so pedestrian. I'm usually pretty good at figuring these things out. I'm guessing that my computer is "thinking" that what I'm trying to install is AOO in French as my default language, not the add-on pack.

When I try to change the language from within AOO, my only option is the default English (USA), so it's not installed. Again, very sorry to be so slow, but I don't see another source for an alternative language pack. Perhaps I'm mistakenly at the wrong download page for the French language pack?

Another quick note: I did run the installer as an admin w/ elevated rights, but no dice. Perhaps there are certain files that simply need to be copied into the AOO application folder? And thanks again for the rapid reply. I know I'll get it done...esp as I become familiar w/ AOO again.

[RoryOF]

Do you wish to add French as a spelllcheck language, or to convert the OO inteface into French? These are two different things, done in different ways.

[psom0ne]

I would like to have the option to switch the interface entirely to French. This way, when I have a job to complete in French, I can jump over to that interface, and when I'm finished, come back to my native English. After that, then I plan on adding the French spellcheck option.

[Hagar Delest]

Don't you see that:

I guess that you've rebooted the machine at least once since the installation; Perhaps the Quickstarter was preventing the new package to be seen.
Else, no idea. I would try to uninstall AOO, redo the main installation with the EN version and install the FR language pack just afterward.

[psom0ne]

No, unfortunately I don't and I know it must be something on my end that I'm not doing correctly. I just rebooted and checked. I'll try the reinstallation (backing up my data files first of course) and see if that works. Typically when something like this happens to me, it ends up bieng something right in front of me that I'm overlooking. I suspect the same here. But I appreciate the help...very much. Merci. Bonne journée.

[Hagar Delest]

You can also try to reset your OpenOffice user profile. Perhaps there is something that prevents the language pack to appear.
No need to backup your files, the configuration (in the user profile) is not removed at uninstall (as long as you don't use any cleaner utility that would specifically detect these remnants).

[psom0ne]

Merci Hagar - I will try that as soon as I finish up a small transcritpion I'm doing. Thank you very much for your time and help. I just wonder if I'm downloading the correct installer. What I have seems to be the French version of AOO, but I downloaded it from the language pack site, so...

I will follow up ASAP.

[psom0ne]

By the way, I don't know why I didn't think of this before, but this is the installer pack I have:

Apache_OpenOffice_4.1.6_Win_x86_install_fr.exe

Looking at it...I see that it's not 64 bit? That may be one problem, but that's the only option I see to download. I still haven't gotten around to doing the uninstall procedure, but maybe I can avoid that altogether if I downloaded the wrong thing to begein with.

[YODA]

Apache_OpenOffice_4.1.6_Win_x86_install_fr.exe is not a Language Pack but the installer for Apache_OpenOffice which you already have the English version of installed.

[RoryOF]

And at present OpenOffice is 32 bit on Windows; it runs on Windows 32 or 64 bit.

[psom0ne]

Apache_OpenOffice_4.1.6_Win_x86_install_fr.exe is not a Language Pack but the installer for Apache_OpenOffice which you already have the English version of installed.

Okay, as I suspected. That clears that up. So, I see the links here (https://www.openoffice.org/download/oth ... #tested-lp) for "Full Installation + Language Packs," but where do I find the language pack only? I don't see a link for that there. However, I don't quite understand:

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Do thesee refer to the language packs alone? If so, when I click on those links, I'm simply taken to pages w/ text on them. Do I need to paste those somewhere or something. Pleaes pardon my ignorance. I do appreciate your patience.

[RoryOF]

Go to the download page at http://www.openoffice.org/download/ , select your choice of operating system and OO version, then click on the Language Pack button.

The SHA links list the checksums for various file verification methods - usually not needed unless a very bad internet connection.

[Bill]

So, I see the links here (https://www.openoffice.org/download/oth ... #tested-lp) for "Full Installation + Language Packs," but where do I find the language pack only? I don't see a link for that there.

When I go to the linked page, I see a table which shows a language name in every other row. The row with the language name has the links for the full installation. The links for the language pack are in the next row. If you hover the mouse pointer over the links, you should see a file name displayed at the bottom of your Web browser window. If the file name has "install" in the file name, it is a full installation file. If the file name has "langpack" in the file name, it is a language pack.

[psom0ne]

Go to the download page at http://www.openoffice.org/download/ , select your choice of operating system and OO version, then click on the Language Pack button.

The SHA links list the checksums for various file verification methods - usually not needed unless a very bad internet connection.

Voila! That did it. Thank you so much for your patience and perseverence. For whatever reason, I did not find the right download page. You led me to it and it was super easy from there. Again, thank you. Now I can get to work.

Bravo!

[psom0ne]

By the way - thank you to whomever added "Solved" at the beginning of the post. I forgot to do that. Apologies. And thanks again for all the help.

[robleyd]

whomever added "Solved"

Look at the end of your post - all will be revealed. You just have to read the information on your screen....