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I'm using babel package for spanish language. However, each time I compile my document, the package babel throws me a warning:

Package babel Warning: No hyphenation patterns were loaded for
(babel)                the language `Spanish'
(babel)                I will use the patterns loaded for \language=0 instead.

What goes?

Thank you...

Caramdir
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Javier Novoa C.
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    According to google this is likly to be a bug in your TeX distribution. What operating system and TeX distribution are you using? – Caramdir Aug 18 '10 at 17:52

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You may have to install spanish language support for TeX on your operating system. For instance, on Debian or Ubuntu it means to install texlive-lang-spanish I guess.

Afterwards it may be necessary to rebuilt the format files, for instance by

fmtutil --all

at the command prompt or the package manager of your TeX distribution.

I suggest you add some information to your question regarding operating system and TeX distribution.

However, this topic in the TeX FAQ may help you: Using a new language with Babel. It deals with this warning message and shows ways how to fix that.

barbara beeton
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Stefan Kottwitz
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    On Debian/Ubuntu that command should probably be prefixed by a "sudo". – Caramdir Aug 18 '10 at 17:54
  • wow ok! thank you very much, that done it ... sorry for not specifying everything... I use Debian Lenny, the TeX system is the one which comes by default there... mmm it is texlive, have I searched it ok? I'm kind of new with using TeX in a Linux box... – Javier Novoa C. Aug 18 '10 at 18:01
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    works like charm on ubuntu and solved my problems! Thanks! – WarrenFaith Feb 06 '11 at 17:44
  • Thank! I used synaptic to install "texlive-lang-spanish" and it works fine! –  Apr 12 '12 at 20:44
  • Perfect!!! I spent hours looking for a solution to this and finally I found this thread: "sudo apt-get install texlive-lang-spanish" did the trick!! :D Thank you so much!! –  Jun 14 '12 at 12:23
  • also works under mac OS with texlive installed via macports. The fmtutil --all was key there. Thanks! – David Zwicker Jan 03 '13 at 13:28
  • Do you have a clue what the MikTeX equivalent would be? – ComFreek Sep 05 '19 at 11:24
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I had a similar issue, but for german language. Instead of installing big collection-packages it was sufficient to install the package hyphen-german with TEX-Live Package Tool called tlmgr. For spanish language there is the package called hyphen-spanish.

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  • Welcome to TeX.SX! – yo' Sep 09 '14 at 20:10
  • Thank you, this is the best answer for Ubuntu. Indeed, when you run apt-cache show texlive-lang-spanish you can see that is a collection of around 15 CTAN packages, and you do not need to clutter your computer by downloading all of them. Running tlmgr install hyphen-spanish should be enough. – evaristegd May 12 '19 at 17:00
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For Fedora, use sudo dnf install texlive-hyphen-spanish.

hugomg
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casep
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  • On future Fedora versions, remember to replace yum with dnf (yum is deprecated; at least on Fedora 23 the sistem does the replacement automatically, but don't count on it). – Waldir Leoncio May 20 '16 at 15:25
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For Fedora 24:

sudo dnf install texlive-babel-spanish texlive-hyphen-spanish
fmtutil --all
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