How to install Spanish spell check in Silverblue

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I use the English language version of Fedora Silverblue 34, but I usually use the Spanish language for communication. In Geary, for example, I don’t find how to install the Spanish spell-checker. Any hints? Thanks in advance.

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I assume it’s a flatpak install of Geary.
Switch Gnome system language to spanish, install Geary, switch Gnome back to English. (I am sure there is a better way…)

EDIT: Flatpak Command Reference — Flatpak documentation shows a --set

Example: flatpak config --set languages "sv;en;fi" - worth a try

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Thank you very much, augenauf. It worked perfectly. As you guessed, I used a flatpak install, in this case, the one from Flathub, not the Fedora version. I executed the language command as suggested, with “es, en”. Then, I rebooted the system, reinstalled Geary from Flathub and now everything is fine. I have both languages available. Thanks again.

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flatpak update would probably have been sufficient. anyways, glad it worked.

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It works for me with the flathub Geary, but with the one from registry.fedoraproject.org it doesn’t. It only allows using English spell check (although the UI is in Spanish).

The problem with flathub version is that it’s affected by Geary dies randomly, sometimes after almost 1h open (#1227) · Issues · GNOME / Geary · GitLab and closes automatically, so I miss messages. Fedora’s version doesn’t have that bug, but I have no spell check :see_no_evil:

Some details:

❯ flatpak config
languages: *unset* (default: es;pt)
extra-languages: pt;pt_PT

❯ rpm-ostree status
State: idle
Deployments:
  fedora:fedora/34/x86_64/silverblue
                   Version: 34.20210922.0 (2021-09-22T16:04:58Z)
                BaseCommit: 89bfe0868425ae1a4f07b1cfeb41567f489b3631ce19d50ed76c4fcd662ceb55
              GPGSignature: Valid signature by 8C5BA6990BDB26E19F2A1A801161AE6945719A39
                      Diff: 116 upgraded
       RemovedBasePackages: pipewire-pulseaudio 0.3.36-2.fc34
           LayeredPackages: libvirt-client xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda vagrant-libvirt sushi
                            pipx droidcam fish xorg-x11-drv-nvidia pulseaudio
                            firewall-config fedora-workstation-repositories v4l2loopback
                            totem code qjackctl gnome-boxes gparted python3-invoke xclip
                            openssh-askpass pulseaudio-utils kmod-nvidia moby-engine
                            gstreamer1-plugin-openh264 ffmpeg langpacks-es hunspell-es steam
             LocalPackages: rpmfusion-free-release-34-1.noarch xow-0.4-1.fc32.x86_64

● fedora:fedora/34/x86_64/silverblue
                   Version: 34.20210907.0 (2021-09-07T16:13:26Z)
                BaseCommit: a516a403611614ae0ae2af5ad13b389e22d3d39119ccd609da810282fd0137ef
              GPGSignature: Valid signature by 8C5BA6990BDB26E19F2A1A801161AE6945719A39
       RemovedBasePackages: pipewire-pulseaudio 0.3.34-1.fc34
           LayeredPackages: libvirt-client xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda vagrant-libvirt sushi
                            pipx droidcam fish xorg-x11-drv-nvidia pulseaudio
                            firewall-config fedora-workstation-repositories v4l2loopback
                            totem code qjackctl gnome-boxes gparted python3-invoke xclip
                            openssh-askpass pulseaudio-utils kmod-nvidia moby-engine
                            gstreamer1-plugin-openh264 ffmpeg langpacks-es hunspell-es steam
             LocalPackages: rpmfusion-free-release-34-1.noarch xow-0.4-1.fc32.x86_64

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