On Fri, 5 Jun 2015 15:03:55 +0530 Himanshu Shekhar <himanshushekhar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello > I am a Linux enthusiast and have started using Debian a few days back > after using Ubuntu for 2 years. Debian is really awesome and doesn't > crash. Well, right now I have two major issues : > 1. Debian cannot display languages as Hindi, not even Google Hindi in > Chromium. > 2. I just get confused in app names in Synaptic and want to install > apps without using DVD easily. > It would be great for this newbie to be properly guided. Hi! First things first: please understand that this list is not a place to ask for general user help as it's dedicated to the development of Debian itself, so it features hard-core deeply technical discussions. Tomas already pointed you to right directions for getting help so I won't repeat that. As to your specific problem with displaying Hindi text in Chrome, I think that your system just misses the necessary fonts (that is, data files that provide drawable representations for characters of a specific language. The basic Debian system supposedly only installs fonts for the most commonly used scripts such as Western Latin etc. I did a quick search among the available packages on my Debian Wheezy system, and got this: ~% apt-cache search font hindi fonts-deva-extra - Free fonts for Devanagari script fonts-lohit-deva - Lohit TrueType font for Devanagari script fonts-nakula - Free Unicode compliant Devanagari font fonts-sahadeva - Free Unicode compliant Devanagari font fonts-samyak-deva - Samyak TrueType font for Devanagari script emacs-intl-fonts - Fonts to allow multi-lingual PostScript printing task-hindi - Hindi environment You can safely ignore the emacs-intl-fonts package as it is for use with a particular text editor, but the others seem interesting, in particular, the last one: ~% apt-cache show task-hindi Package: task-hindi Source: tasksel Version: 3.14.1 Installed-Size: 21 Maintainer: Debian Install System Team <debian-b...@lists.debian.org> Architecture: all Depends: tasksel Recommends: aspell-hi Description-en: Hindi environment This task installs programs, data files, fonts, and documentation that makes it easier for Hindi speakers to use Debian. [...] Now, let's do a more targeted search: ~% apt-cache search task hindi task-hindi - Hindi environment task-hindi-desktop - Hindi desktop task-hindi-kde-desktop - Hindi KDE desktop So I'd say task-hindi-desktop would be a safe bet for you. AFAIK, the next logical things to do is to (all commands are to be execured in a console window): 1) Install that task package: # apt-get install task-hindi-desktop 2) Install the packages referenced by that task: * Run tasksel: # tasksel * Select the task for Hindi Desktop in the list, then press OK in the interface. See <https://wiki.debian.org/tasksel> for more. May be others will provide you with more user-friendly solutions (I don't use tools like Synaptic anyway so can't help with this). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150605153204.41a7f57695c9da6d262c6...@domain007.com