I’ve been using LibreOffice on my EndeavourOS Linux system since it was set up roughly 18 months ago. I have just realised that at some point, maybe the most recent LibreOffice update, the spell checker stopped working in Writer.
Writer itself runs fine but attempting to spellcheck a document fails with the error “no dictionary available”.
The LibreOffice installation is the libreoffice-fresh-en-gb package from the Arch “extra” repo.
I have checked that the settings under Tools->Options-> Languages and Locales->General have UK English set for-
- UI language
- Format (Locale)
- Default Language for Documents
I have searched this site and found at least one similar issue, but the recommended fix (installing “hunspell” dictionaries) was described as only being necessary for old versions of LibreOffice (back to v4).
What should I be checking to determine what is missing or broken?
**System Setup**
OS: EndeavourOS (Arch based), Kernel version 6.18.9-arch1-2 (64 bit)
Desktop: KDE Plasma 6.5.5 (Wayland)
LibreOffice: 26.2.0.3 (X86_64)