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Old 04-10-2007, 07:40 AM   #1
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-How to add other languages in Etch/Gnome ?

Hi all,

I successfully installed Debian Etch 4.0r0 on 2 PC's yesterday. I performed that install with the first CD (i386), in french, so when I boot, the GDM option for languages offers me french & english. I also need spanish (my family is multi-lingual).

In Fedora & Ubuntu, it was very easy, but in Debian, I don't find the "add other language" option...

-Does any of you have an idea to help me out ?

Thank you very much in advance !
 
Old 04-10-2007, 11:27 AM   #2
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It looks like Ubuntu uses a program called language-selector, which doesn't appear to be available in Debian.

I think you can add a language in Debian by editing /etc/locale.gen and then running locale-gen. I've never done this before, but I'm pretty sure this should work. You probably should read the man pages for locale.gen and locale-gen before you try it.
 
Old 04-10-2007, 12:33 PM   #3
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as root, try dpkg-reconfigure locales, choose your locales and they will then appear in GDM
 
Old 04-10-2007, 01:55 PM   #4
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as root, try dpkg-reconfigure locales, choose your locales and they will then appear in GDM
Oh man, I can't believe I didn't think of that.
 
Old 04-10-2007, 03:47 PM   #5
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Thank you both for your input.

I did (as root), dpkg-reconfigure locales, chose my locales and they indeed appeared in GDM.

Now my problem is whenever I try to boot in spanish, I get an error message saying this language doesn't exist, and it boots me into the default language...

I am missing something for sure...
 
Old 04-10-2007, 03:52 PM   #6
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You could try the following command to see if the locale you picked is valid.
Code:
validlocale locale
 
Old 04-12-2007, 09:32 AM   #7
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This is what I get :

PHP Code:
spc2:/home/martin# validlocale locale
locale 'locale' not available
locale ISO-8859-1 
 
Old 04-12-2007, 09:36 AM   #8
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Replace locale with es, so the command would be:
Code:
validlocale es
 
Old 04-12-2007, 02:22 PM   #9
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it gives me:
PHP Code:
spc2:/home/martin# validlocale es
locale 'es' not available
es ISO-8859-1 
 
Old 04-12-2007, 02:43 PM   #10
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When you ran dpkg-reconfigure locales, what locale(s) did you choose?
 
Old 04-13-2007, 07:08 AM   #11
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here it is :

PHP Code:
spc2:/home/martin# dpkg-reconfigure locales
Generating locales (this might take a while)...
  fr_FR.UTF-8... done
  en_US.ISO-8859-1... done
  en_US.ISO-8859-15... done
  en_US.UTF-8... done
  es_AR.ISO-8859-1... done
  es_AR.UTF-8... done
  es_DO.ISO-8859-1... done
  es_DO.UTF-8... done
  es_MX.ISO-8859-1... done
  es_MX.UTF-8... done
  fr_FR.ISO-8859-1... done
  es_BO.ISO-8859-1... done
  es_BO.UTF-8... done
  es_CL.ISO-8859-1... done
  es_CL.UTF-8... done
  es_CO.ISO-8859-1... done
  es_CO.UTF-8... done
  es_CR.ISO-8859-1... done
  es_CR.UTF-8... done
  es_EC.ISO-8859-1... done
  es_EC.UTF-8... done
  es_ES.ISO-8859-1... done
  es_ES.UTF-8... done
  es_ES.ISO-8859-15@euro... done
  es_GT.ISO-8859-1... done
  es_GT.UTF-8... done
  es_HN.ISO-8859-1... done
  es_HN.UTF-8... done
  es_NI.ISO-8859-1... done
  es_NI.UTF-8... done
  es_PA.ISO-8859-1... done
  es_PA.UTF-8... done
  es_PE.ISO-8859-1... done
  es_PE.UTF-8... done
  es_PR.ISO-8859-1... done
  es_PR.UTF-8... done
  es_PY.ISO-8859-1... done
  es_PY.UTF-8... done
  es_SV.ISO-8859-1... done
  es_SV.UTF-8... done
  es_US.ISO-8859-1... done
  es_US.UTF-8... done
  es_UY.ISO-8859-1... done
  es_UY.UTF-8... done
  es_VE.ISO-8859-1... done
  es_VE.UTF-8... done
Generation complete.
spc2:/home/martin# validlocale es
locale 'es' not available
es ISO-8859-1 
 
Old 04-13-2007, 01:42 PM   #12
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When you run dpkg-reconfigure locales, you should get a list of locales to choose from. Are you getting a list, or is the output you posted all you are getting.
 
Old 04-13-2007, 02:15 PM   #13
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Thank you to keep assisting me.

Indeed,when I run dpkg-reconfigure locales, I get a long list.

What I did was selecting all spanish ones (the ones starting with es).

It is rather strange...

The output on my last post is the result of the selection, followed by what I get issuing validlocale es...
Last edited by el amigo*; 04-13-2007 at 02:17 PM.
 
Old 04-13-2007, 02:27 PM   #14
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Try the following command and post the results.
Code:
validlocale es_ES.UTF-8
 
Old 04-13-2007, 04:59 PM   #15
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seems good :

PHP Code:
spc2:/home/martin# validlocale es_ES.UTF-8
locale 'es_ES.UTF-8' valid and available 
 
  


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