On Tue, Feb 27, 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Salam alaykoum, Salam!
> I'm glad to announce the release of the first version of Ubuntu Muslim > Edition (www.ubuntuME.com[1]), alHamdulillah. You can download it here[2]. > The UbuntuME project has just started ; feel free to post > comments/ideas/contributions in the forums.[3] I am glad to hear that! And especially that you are using a Debian-based distribution for your work. Well, I would have preferred Debian directly, but chosing Ubuntu is already great ;-) > I'm working on the next step of the project: pre-installing arabic > fonts/tools etc. I want the process of installing UbuntuME in arabic easy > for the end-user. I need to know what packages/softwares/tools I need to > install... (I ask you that because I'm not an Arabic-speaking person) Here I need *your* help! On Debian, and all the Debian-based distros, we use a tool called Tasksel. It is a way to customise, at installation-time, the distribution you want to install. Currently, we have an Arabic and an Arabic-desktop task, which I am in charge of maintaining. That's a list of Debian packages that should be installed by default when we want to install an Arabic distribution. And this is the *clean* way to do it, in Debian *and* Ubuntu. Why do I need your help? Because I would like to add the same data you are collecting to complete the current list I have for tasksel. See http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/tasksel/trunk/tasks/arabic?op=file&rev=0&sc=0 xfonts-intl-arabic ttf-arabeyes aspell-ar itools and http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/tasksel/trunk/tasks/arabic-desktop?op=file&rev=0&sc=0 ttf-kacst ttf-farsiweb kde-i18n-ar iceweasel-l10n-ar I am also planning to add minbar, but it is still in experimental. Moreover, you seem to have packaging skills. These are needed in Arabeyes and I would be glad to help you improve these skills and help you integrate your work in our project (if you want to do it). Do not hesitate to come on #arabeyes at irc.freenode.net . Some months ago, someone suggested to build an Arabic Ubuntu-based distro but nothing happened so far. You did it yourself and I am happy to hear that. Please let us hear even more happy things from you in the following days and weeks. -- Mohammed Adnène Trojette
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