Problems with localisation and spell checking selections

[Daniel Atallah]

On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 13:20, Brian Morrison <bdm at fenrir.org.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, 13 May 2010 16:38:12 +0100
> Brian Morrison <bdm at fenrir.org.uk> wrote:
>
>> This one is definitely not your fault, it's a problem with my work
>> machine where it simply won't allow access to the web proxy server
>> unless it's via a browser. Maybe now I can get it fixed as I use
>> Pidgin for work and I should be able to install it without hassles :)
>
> Right, well our proxy now allows access to the GTK+ zip file and to the
> debug symbols, however when Pidgin tries to download the spell checker
> dictionaries it fails because
>
> http://ftp.services.openoffice.org/pub/OpenOffice.org/contrib/

The right URL is
http://ftp.services.openoffice.org/pub/OpenOffice.org/contrib/dictionaries/

On the mirror i'm hitting
(http://ftp.services.openoffice.org/pub/OpenOffice.org/contrib/dictionaries/)
the dictionaries are present.

-D