All OpenOffice dictionaries downloads seem to be broken

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awirth
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All OpenOffice dictionaries downloads seem to be broken

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Hey all,
All of the download links for OpenOffice dictionaries seem to be broken, can't seem to provisionally recover them from WayBack machine etc either:
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Hopefully this is the right place to post this, if not anyone else please let me know where the best place would be!
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Re: All OpenOffice dictionaries downloads seem to be broken

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Hi and welcome to the forum!

This is something you can report to the dev mailing list, they don't come in the forum: https://openoffice.apache.org/mailing-l ... ist-public
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Thanks Hagar, have subscribed to the dev mailing list and sent the same on to dev@openoffice.apache.org

Cheers,
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Here is the link to the discussion: https://lists.apache.org/thread/ct36d58 ... ro4w7sgb6q
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awirth wrote: Thu Oct 09, 2025 6:19 pm All of the download links for OpenOffice dictionaries seem to be broken …
Though not a solution to the broken link problem, for those who need the English dictionary extension, the aforementioned developer discussion says dict-en-20250901_aoo.oxt is available from the SourceForge Apache OpenOffice Extensions Files page:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/aoo-ex ... 17102/112/
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