Spell checking service focusing on Finnish, is no longer operational since Libreoffice v. 6.1.4.2 release on Linux.

[Ricky-Tigg]

Hi. Till Libreoffice version 6.1.2.1 release, on x86-64 (AMD64) hardware architecture, using Linux, Fedora last stable variant release, the spell checking service focusing on text written in Finnish have been operational. Next maintenance brought Libreoffice version 6.1.4.2 release to Fedora; since then, that service have not been operational. Though system configuration has remained in the state that prevailed when that service was still operational. On that page, I could assume that, mentioned compatibility with Libreoffice last stable version – 6.1 – is still actual, as I conceived it could not end that way without formal notification from the author of the present language extension.

[hatapitk]

Hi! I just tested that Libreoffice-voikko works on Debian Linux using LibreOffice version 6.1.4 . I cannot see obvious reason why it would not work on Fedora as well.

That said please note that extensions available on the LibreOffice extension repository you linked in your message are not designed to be used on Linux. They do not contain the required libvoikko native library compiled for Linux operating system. They may work if your system happens to have the required library installed for some other reason but there are no guarantees that this is the case. Maybe upgrading your system caused that library package to be removed and that has caused the extension to stop working?

You should use LibreOffice and libreoffice-voikko packages that are available from the official Fedora package repository. And if there are any compatibility issues between those the issue should be reported to Fedora Bugzilla.

I will leave this bug report open for now in case it turns out that there indeed is a bug in libreoffice-voikko that needs to be fixed. If you still think this is the case please provide more information on how you have installed the spell checker and where you got it from.

[Ricky-Tigg]

LibreOffice used: _Versio: 6.2.5.2; Käännöksen ID: 6.2.5.2-1.fc30; CPU-säikeet: 2; Käyttöjärjestelmä: Linux 5.1; Piirtokomponentti: oletus; VCL: gtk3; Maa-asetus: fi-FI (fiFI.UTF-8); Käyttöliittymän kieli: fi-FI; Calc: threaded

Hi. You may have by now by yourself confirmed, possibly on a virtual machine with the last Fedora system installed selecting Finnish as system language and leaving the systems with its defaults settings, the observation presently reported, which goes on. It may be challenging to determine on whose side the issue sits. Once you have a fully updated system by running sudo dnf --refresh -qy upgrade the following commands could be run.

Here are the functions that determine which packages are currently installed by default.

$ dnf -q list installed *langpack* | grep -ie -fi.
glibc-langpack-fi.x86_64                   2.29-15.fc30           @updates        
langpacks-fi.noarch                        1.0-17.fc30            @fedora         
libreoffice-langpack-fi.x86_64             1:6.2.5.2-1.fc30       @updates

$ dnf -q list installed *voikko*
Asennetut paketit
enchant-voikko.x86_64                      1:1.6.0-23.fc30        @fedora 
enchant2-voikko.x86_64                     2.2.5-1.fc30           @updates
libreoffice-voikko.x86_64                  5.0-3.fc30             @fedora 
libvoikko.x86_64                           4.1.1-2.fc30           @fedora 
malaga-suomi-voikko.x86_64                 1.19-9.fc30            @fedora 
python3-libvoikko.noarch                   4.1.1-2.f              @fedora 

The following command produces same output without option --installed. These are the required packages that are also installed on the system.

$ dnf -q repoquery --installed --resolve --requires libreoffice-voikko | more
libreoffice-core-1:6.2.5.2-1.fc30.x86_64
libreoffice-pyuno-1:6.2.5.2-1.fc30.x86_64
python3-libvoikko-0:4.1.1-2.fc30.noarch

That would get the complete list with indirect dependencies: $ dnf -q repoquery --recursive --resolve --requires libreoffice-voikko

That would get the complete list with indirect dependencies installed: $ dnf -q repoquery --installed --recursive --resolve --requires libreoffice-voikko

Output produced by selecting libreoffice-voikko for removing:

$ LANG=C sudo dnf remove libreoffice-voikko
Dependencies resolved.
================================================================================
 Package                     Arch       Version              Repository    Size
================================================================================
Removing:
 libreoffice-voikko          x86_64     5.0-3.fc30           @fedora      137 k
Removing dependent packages:
 libreoffice-langpack-fi     x86_64     1:6.2.5.2-1.fc30     @updates     2.6 M

[hatapitk]

Hi!

Thanks for the detailed additional information. It looks like you have libvoikko 4.1.1 and malaga-suomi-voikko 1.19 installed. This combination does not work in the default configuration. I am not sure what build configuration Fedora uses for libvoikko but this might be the reason why spell checking is not working properly. Running voikkospell -l will reveal if libvoikko cannot find compatible dictionary. But I don't know which package in Fedora contains the voikkospell binary.

Based on the information you provided and my own testing on Debian where this bug cannot be reproduced I will label this a downstream bug and suggest reporting it to Fedora bug tracker.

[Ricky-Tigg]

Hi. You will be reported at Red Hat Bugzilla, under package voikko-tools.

$ LANG=C voikkospell -l
fi-x-standard: suomi (perussanasto)
$ rpm -ql $(rpm -qf `which voikkospell` --qf '%{NAME}\n')
/usr/bin/voikkogc
/usr/bin/voikkohyphenate
/usr/bin/voikkospell
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/47
/usr/lib/.build-id/47/9aabc9e074b8b5734a006575a12d0e8fc45aa8
/usr/lib/.build-id/b4
/usr/lib/.build-id/b4/b551fd7f9ec4dfd6b882572a8fb69bc5b78595
/usr/lib/.build-id/e1
/usr/lib/.build-id/e1/85fbae1db34e32465602b3576d04c8c68b9b45
/usr/share/man/man1/voikkogc.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/voikkohyphenate.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/voikkospell.1.gz

[Ricky-Tigg]

Referenced first at closest downstream then at next closest downstream under component libvoikko.

[caolanm]

The install-unpacked target in the Makefile loses the necessary hierarchy at install

[Ricky-Tigg]

@caolanm – Issue Gnome – #103 might also be eligible under resolves at 83e27fc.

[Ricky-Tigg]

@caolanm /Red Hat – Thanks; you resolved that @hatapitk's case.