Collabora add missing spellcheck (dictionary)

[AlexS]

Hello Together,
we finally installed Collabora on our own Server using the docker image. It seems great. The only question I have so far is:
How can I install the Greek Spellcheck?
Any ideas?
Thank you all and best regards
Alex

[AlexS]

Ok, I managed to install it, I will later write how I did it.

[StefanU]

Hallo Alex.

Schau mal hier:

EGroupware/egroupware

In der loolwsd.xml wird die Schnittstelle und Collabora Online selber.

<allowed_languages desc="List of supported languages of Writing Aids (spell checker, grammar checker, thesaurus, hyphenation) on this instance. Allowing too many has negative effect on startup performance." default="de_DE en_GB en_US es_ES fr_FR it nl pt_BR pt_PT ru">de_DE en_GB en_US es_ES fr_FR it nl pt_BR pt_PT ru</allowed_languages>

Selbsterklärend, oder? Du kannst das ja bei dir mal ausprobieren. el brauchts da, oder?

Das Collabora-Modul ist übrigend noch gar nicht auf griechisch übersetzt. Vielleicht magst du dich da mal dran begeben? Ich auch nicht ganz so viel wie in anderen Modulen. Da ist auch nichts veraltetes drin und das meiste selbsterklärend.

Gruß
Stefan

[AlexS]

Hallo @StefanU das hatte ich schon probiert, es hat aber nicht funktioniert. Ich musste im Docker container zusätzlich noch hunspell-el installieren, schreibe ich gleich noch…

Welche Übersetzung meinst Du, die Einstellungen hier?

[AlexS]

In order to install greek spellchecking I first added

el_GR

to the setting

<allowed_languages desc …

in the

loolwsd.xml

file.

And restarted the container.

But unfortunately nothing changed in the Collabora editor.

Then I got a hint that I have to install

hunspell-el

So because the Collabora Image is a root-less Container I had to run:

docker exec --user=“root” -it collabora-key apt-get update

and then

docker exec --user=“root” -it collabora-key apt-get install hunspell-el

and then I restarted the Container again.

Voila, Greek spellchecking appears in the editor:

Now the thing missing is to create a

Dockerfile

to make this installation an automatic process.

[StefanU]

Welche Übersetzung meinst Du, die Einstellungen hier?

Ja, unter anderem. Stehen auf dem Translation-Server unter Collabora Online:

Da sind z. B. auch Sachen dabei, die wir nach CO übertragen (z. B. Send as email).

Stefan

[StefanU]

Now the thing missing is to create a

Dockerfile

to make this installation an automatic process.

Kannst du dafür bitte ein Ticket aufmachen? Das ist ein grundsätzliches Thema, was wir (Hadi) klären sollten.

Gruß
Stefan

[AlexS]

Ok, mache ich.

[RalfBecker]

But unfortunately nothing changed in the Collabora editor.

Then I got a hint that I have to install

hunspell-el

I added the specific questions to our ticket in the (non-public) Collabora tracker, if there is any reason to not add hunspell-el by default.

I’ll wait for Andras (Collabora’s packager), before adding it on our side.

Ralf

[RalfBecker]

Got an answer from Andras, the Greek dictionary should be installed in the container, as I can verify too:

docker run --rm quay.io/egroupware/collabora-key dpkg -l | grep dict-el
ii  collaboraoffice6.2-dict-el                   6.2.10.10-10                        amd64        El dictionary for Collabora Office 6.2 -10

Andras also said, while all available LibreOffice dictionaries are installed in the container, only a couple are preloaded and Greek is not one of them:

CollaboraOnline/Docker/blob/master/key/scripts/start-libreoffice.sh#L33

After adding Greek to the preloaded dictionaries in my docker-compose.yml:

  collabora-key:
    volumes:
    - collabora-config:/etc/loolwsd
    environment:
    - dictionaries=de_DE en_GB en_US es_ES fr_FR it nl pt_BR pt_PT ru el

AND restarting the container, I could spell-check a Greek word I googled: φιλοξενία

For the environment variable to work (patching it into loolwsd.xml), the /etc/loolwsd mount must NOT be readonly!

Can you verify that eg. by stoping and deleting (rm -f) the collabora container and starting it again (up -d).

Ralf

[AlexS]

Hello @RalfBecker,

I removed the container with

docker rm -f collabora-key

and started it again.

And yes it has the Greek spellcheck installed!

So, it seems that the problem was that I had not removed the container after adding ‘el_GR’ to loolwsd.xml.

I will not forget that practice very soon!
Thank you very much for your support and please accept my apologies for the confusion I caused.
BR
Alex.