On Sun, 2004-01-18 at 23:30, Michael Golden wrote: > I was thinking it'd be fun to try switching my linux box to > different languages just to see what things are called but I can't > quite figure out how. I want to be able to choose a language, have it > install any necessary packages to localize things, and then do the > configuration for terminal and X, etc. all for me. I don't know how it > is in most OS's but I tried it in BeOS yesterday and it was a simple > choice in the menu. I'm running Mandrake and browsed through the > configuration stuff and found LocaleDrake but it only offers to switch > me between English, English (American), English (Ireland), Swati, and > Venda. (Any idea what those last two even are?) So, any ideas?
It seems like whenever I've installed Mandrake it's asked what languages I want to be made available. Hmm, 'rpm -qa | grep locales' shows that I've got locales-en and locales-de installed (I don't remember picking, what is that, German?), and 'urpmi --fuzzy locales' gives me a list of what others are available. I'm betting these rpms are what you need to get support for other languages. I know I showed a guy at work Mandrake a couple months ago. He chose Chinese when he installed it and it looked dang pretty cool. Bryan ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
