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Old 07-12-2007, 10:18 PM   #1
daBittweiler
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installing slackware in the ethiopian language


Hey, I have a friend who would like to give slackware linux a spin.
He ask me if Linux could be install in the Ethiopian language since it's his native tongue.

My question is could I install Slack in English just to set things up for him. (he insists I install this on his labtop) then afterwards changes things to his Language?

Or has anyone install slackware in a different language besides english? I wondering since I don't speak the language how harder it would be to do something like this without a translator?
 
Old 07-14-2007, 06:13 AM   #2
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Slackware delivers ehtiopian fonts for the X server, but it looks as if KDE has no language pack for that.

Maybe Ubuntu (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-Amharic) is the right thing for your friend, although it seems still in progress and not ready yet I guess.
 
  


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