On Sat, 2005-10-22 at 16:26 -0400, G. Roderick Singleton wrote: > On Sat, 2005-10-22 at 11:55 -0400, Dale Erwin wrote: > > I have downloaded the English version of OOo 2.0 and I found > > the Spanish language pack on the es.openoffice.org/programa > > site. The lang pack was the rc2 version, but there was a comment > > at the d/l site that rc2 was compatible with Final. > > If the NL doesn't have a pack, sometimes these are available from > http://oootranslation.services.openoffice.org/pub/OpenOffice.org/ > No guarantees though. >
I found the rc2 French language tarball at the above URL. > > > > I would like to know just how this works. Do I install the > > English version and then install the language pack on top of > > it? > > > > I think that you install OOo from the language specific tarball that you > downloaded and then proceed to add language packs. In your case > starting with English would seem correct. And the answer is yes. Unpack the pack and run whatever your native installer is. In my case this was rpm. What this does is gives you the capability to switch lanaguages via Tools > Options > Language Settings via the dropdown menus. Neat. > > > I was unable to find a language pack for the Italian language. > > In fact, on the it.openoffice.org site, I found no reference > > at all to version 2.0 final. The announcement said 2.0 was > > released in 36 languages. It's hard for me to believe that > > Italian wasn't among them. Did I look in the wrong place? > > Don't know. I am going to experiment with the FR language pack to see > how to install it. I had hoped that my request on the NL list would have > produced an answer but it hasn't. Experiment is complete and successful. No gotchas. -- PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON THE LIST. OpenOffice.org Documentation Co-Lead http://documentation.openoffice.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
