[Gutsy] undefined symbol: _ZN8Hunspell5spel

I can verify this bug on my computer. In my case, it also prevents loading spreadsheets (.xls or .ods).

This bug is about libhunspell version (1.1.4 > 1.1.5). Please rebuild OOo and it will disappear.

Quote:

1.1.4 and 1.1.5 changed ABI, but the SONAME didn't change. Not that it wold have mattered anyway as the shared library was only in experimental only and 1.1.5 is the first upstream version with shared library.

Newer OOos depend on the newr libhunspell, older OOos are not fixable.

http://lists.debian.org/debian-openoffice/2007/03/msg00184.html

I can confirm, installing the 1.1.4 of libhunspell fro feisty solves the problem, so please rebuild openoffice against new libhunspell!

Any idea on a timeline for a rebuild of openoffice?

I guess that we will wait until 2.2.1, now it is in release candidate 2:

http://development.openoffice.org/releases/2.2.1rc2.html

(this bug is duplicated in 111940, it seems to be the active thread)

If you need OOo in gutsy, just install libhunspell 1.1.4 from feisty: http://launchpadlibrarian.net/5769050/libhunspell-1.1-0_1.1.4-7_i386.deb
But in case you do it, you won't be able to use current firefox and thunderbird.

thaks to Anderson, a possible workaround is:

# wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/5769050/libhunspell-1.1-0_1.1.4-7_i386.deb
# dpkg --extract libhunspell-1.1-0_1.1.4-7_i386.deb .
# cp usr/lib/libhunspell* /usr/lib/openoffice/program/

So only OpenOffice.org uses the old libhunspell.

( https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hunspell/+bug/111940/comments/25 )

its not really the big issue of it being rebuilt as it is more so the issue of the soname of libhunspell that needs to be worked out. once that is worked out everything will have to be rebuilt on it again anyway.

Matthias Klose said 6 hours ago:

fixed in openoffice.org 2.2.1~rc3-1ubuntu3

Anderson said 1 hour ago:

A warning for those people that made my workaround....
Now, you must remove old libhunspell from the system.

# rm /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libhunspell*

Francesc,

There is no need for you to quote here everything said in the Master bug, since everybody here is subscribed to it, because this is a duplicate of it.
So they are receiving the messages of the other bug.

Cheers

I've done it to inform people who come (came) here by googling the literal OOo error:

/usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice.bin: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libspell680li.so: undefined symbol: _ZN8Hunspell5spellEPKc

http://www.google.com/search?q=%2Fusr%2Flib%2Fopenoffice%2Fprogram%2Fsoffice.bin%3A+symbol+lookup+error%3A+%2Fusr%2Flib%2Fopenoffice%2Fprogram%2Flibspell680li.so%3A+undefined+symbol%3A+_ZN8Hunspell5spellEPKc

But ok, AFAIK by the moment this bug is solved and it should be closed