Bug 829189
| Summary: | Post-install addition of language packs impossible | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Bert DeKnuydt <Bert.Deknuydt> |
| Component: | comps | Assignee: | Bill Nottingham <notting> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 17 | CC: | amani.julian, ffesti, james.antill, linuxhippy, marcosfrm, maxamillion, packaging-team, rvokal, tim.lauridsen, zpavlas |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2013-04-30 20:28:45 UTC | Type: | Bug |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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For installing localized packages, use the yum-langpacks plugins. The @foo-support are only used for fonts and input-methods (and will be removed when that can be made to work with langpacks properly.) As far as I can understand, yum-langpacks (which I use) is not able to do that. (Correct me if I'm wrong) E.g.: I have a fully installed machine with no language-packs at all. The normal user of the machine leaves and a German speaking one will take the machine. Before, a simple yum install @german-support and all was done. With yum-langpacks, at best, I can have yum install the German langpacks _for newly installed packages_, after editing /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/langpacks.conf. Only a 'yum reinstall <almost-everything>' will drag in the packs. Unless I miss something from the rather scanty documentation... Sorry, but that is not usable, when you juggle with about 15+ languagepacks amoungst your users. And it's a very serious step backwards. Only a kind of 'yum update-language-packs' would bring us back to where we were... And then I'm not even talking about removing language packs again ... B. That could be added to the plugin as an additional option - I'll have to look at that. But the problems of having to maintain static lists of language packs for all packages in comps became untenable, which is why we went to the plugin method. I have the same problem. I can reproduce it on two different machines with fresh Fedora KDE spin installs. However, I was initially using the gui tool "system-config-language". After several unsuccessfull changes of the language, I ran "system-config-language" in a terminal: # sudo system-config-language Geladene Plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit Warning: Group german-support does not have any packages. The manual installation described by Bert DeKnuydt does not work either. Same here. Tried to set the language with system-config-language, and it fails to install language packages. As suggested by Bill Nottingham I added the languages in langpacks.conf (at least that is what I think Bill ment).
It had no effect!
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> cat /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/langpacks.conf
[main]
enabled=1
# specify locales requiring langpacks
#langpack_locales = ja_JP, zh_CN, mr_IN
langpack_locales = de_DE, en_US
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Additionally I tried different languages with the same result.
From what I can tell, it is impossible to change to a another language in Fedora 17 besides US-English!
Example - selecting French:
sudo system-config-language
Geladene Plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
Warning: Group french-support does not have any packages.
Example - selecting Polish:
sudo system-config-language
Geladene Plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
Warning: Group polish-support does not have any packages.
I suggest to edit the title of this bug accordingly, since it is neither limited to the german language nor to the yum installation method (Bert DeKnuydt).
As for the title: agreed. Is this better? Feel free to suggest something more expressive. Perfect! Thank you for the fast response. 'yum langinstall <lang>' should be working a for a release or two now. |
Don't know under what to file this bug. Other option is anaconda. Description of problem: It used to be possible to install additional language packs, after the Fedora install, by a simple: yum install @german-support Now, this does nothing for most languages (but not all, Japanese e.g. does work). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora 17, yum-3.4.3-23.fc17.noarch anaconda-17.29-1.fc17 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. yum install @german-support @dutch-support ... 2. See that nothing happens, even after adding group_package_types=default,mandatory,optional in /etc/yum.conf 3. Actual results: [Under Fedora 17] >>> yum groupinfo german-support Loaded plugins: downloadonly, langpacks, presto Group: German Support Language: de Expected results: [Under Fedora 16] Loaded plugins: downloadonly, langpacks, presto Available Language Groups: German Support [de] Done [root@xanadu ~]# yum groupinfo german-support Loaded plugins: downloadonly, langpacks, presto Group: German Support Language: de Conditional Packages: LabPlot-doc-de aspell-de autocorr-de childsplay-alphabet_sounds_de eclipse-nls-de [[and more]]] Additional info: This is not really a yum error, but is due to a change in the 'comps-f17.xml' file, which defines the 'groups' in the repo. If you diff the F16 and F17 version, you see that in most languag packs all rpms with a name '<package>-<language>', like aspell-de or kde-i18n-German are removed from the group definition.