[AbiWord 2.6.6 Setup Free
Virginie Fayad
I am working on Lubuntu 14.04 with Abiword 3.0.0 and with the pre-installed version only the spell-check for English came along. I can switch to other languages within the program, but then the spell-checking isn't working.
I checked different forums, but didn't find a straightforward solution. I downloaded the ispell "hash" files (+encoding file) for French and German. But now I don't know where (in which folder location) to put them or how to use or properly install them. The location info from this help page doesn't seem to correspond anymore ( -US/info/infospelling.html)
Without having German or Italian support installed on my system I was able to switch to German and Italian, select them from the "Set language" setting (right-click outside text within document or under "Tools") and use spelling successfully.
It seems the OP already did that but then the spelling didn't work. That may be true or may be an impression coming from the fact that the setting above is somewhat buggy and the selection is not followed as expected, or rather the selection is a bit difficult to make - I had to repeat a few times in order to get the correct selection. It seemed to me that the "Make default" option is not immediately followed, in which case I made sure that my text intended for correction was selected, and then right-clicked while it was selected, and then chose "Set language", with double-click on the language name. To see which corrector is selected for different parts of text, click text and look at right-bottom of the Abiword window.
Maybe the 18.04 comes with installed aspell dictionaries that were lacking in previous ubuntu-s. And indeed, the instructions at the address linked in the question are partially outdated. There is no /usr/local/share/AbiSuite-2.0/dictionary/ in the 3.x version. There is /usr/share/abiword-3.0/ but without any dictionaries. I guess the 3.x program uses some dictionaries at system level, but I am not sure it's the aspell ones, because in Synaptic I only see aspell and aspell-en installed (While German and Italian spellcheck is working without having those language added to the system).
In order to install aspell dictionaries they should be available in Synaptic or similar tools. In order to install them manually, go here, download the archive, open a terminal within the resulting directory and run
I have the latest versions of abiword and abiword-plugins (both v 2.8.6-2) installed from /extra. I'm almost positive that in the past that AbiWord could open both Word 2007+ (.docx) and Open Document (.odt) files, but the installation I have won't. I feel as though I'm missing something obvious. Any thoughts?
No need. I uninstalled the two packages, purged them from cache, and then reinstalled them, and everything works now. No clue what was wrong before, but at least the problem is solved. (Interestingly, uninstall and reinstalling by itself didn't work; I needed the purge, even though the version number hasn't changed.)
If I'm not mistaken it's a warning that comes from another program that abiword is using, but it should not prevent abiword from converting the file. I've just tested this on the newest system image and it works (for pdf and doc documents at least). If you want to get rid of this warning, you can always redirect the stderr to /dev/null, by appending 2>/dev/null to the command.
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