Public bug reported:
The standard Ubuntu installation CD does not contain the language
support files for languages such as Chinese due to space considerations.
Instead, the files must be downloaded during or after installation.
The problem with this is that when bandwidth is scarce or Internet
access is not available, Chinese language support (in fact, all
languages not on the installation disk) is impossible to install. The
problem is exacerbated when one has to install Ubuntu on to multiple
machines (e.g., an office situation where all the machines have
different hardware so that cloning a master disk is not possible).
I suggest that the solution is to either:
Alternative 1: Develop a tool to create/use a supplementary CD
containing files that a fresh Ubuntu installation needs to enable full
language support for one or more user-specified language sets, or else
just make this second CD an optional download as part of the standard
release set.
Alternative 2: Create and make available an Ubuntu DVD installation disk
containing complete language support.
Alternative 3: Develop a tool to allow IT support people to quickly
regenerate a new single-disk Ubuntu installation CD containing the
packages and languages appropriate for the local site.
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Ubuntu language support too net-centric
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/164792
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