hyphen-it software package provides Italian hyphenation patterns for LibreOffice/OpenOffice.org, you can install in your Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install hyphen-it
hyphen-it is installed in your system.
Make ensure the hyphen-it package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep hyphen-it *
You will get with hyphen-it package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 12 04 lts precise pangolin |
| Section | Text Processing |
| Package | hyphen-it |
| Version | 1:3.3.0-2ubuntu3 |
| Description | Italian hyphenation patterns for LibreOffice/OpenOffice.org |
| Sub Section | Text |