[gcompris-devel] Workaround for missing translations on Ubuntu 7.10

[Jordan Mantha]

The latest Ubuntu 7.10 language-pack updates (should be version
7.10+20080205 ) include corrected translations for gcompris. I've looked
at the French translation and it indeed looks like everything is
corrected. Please let me know if you find otherwise. Thanks for your
patience and we will most certainly try to avoid having this sort of
problem again. :-)

-Jordan

Bruno Coudoin wrote:
> As the GCompris translations for Ubuntu 7.10 are broken. I propose you a
> workaround in which we will overwrite the current translation file by
> the one provided by GCompris.
> 
> To do this, get the GCompris .mo translation file from here:
> http://gcompris.net/incoming/locale/
> Follow the link up to the file gcompris.mo in the proper locale
> directory. For example, for French, follow fr/LC_MESSAGES/gcompris.mo
> 
> Then copy it in :
> /usr/share/locale-langpack/"YOUR LOCALE"/LC_MESSAGES/gcompris.mo
> 
> To determine you locale, you can start a console and run the "locale"
> command alone. You can check the output line like for French it displays
> LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8. The short locale is 'fr'. You can then check what
> locales are installed for GCompris with this command:
> find /usr/share/locale-langpack/ -name gcompris.mo
> 
> It will display one or more lines like this:
> /usr/share/locale-langpack/mr/LC_MESSAGES/gcompris.mo
> /usr/share/locale-langpack/th/LC_MESSAGES/gcompris.mo
> ...
> depending on how many locales you have installed.
> 
> As you need the super user right, and I don't know how to to this from
> the user interface, you can enter these commands in a console WHILE
> REPLACING /fr/ by /"your locale"/ :
> cd /tmp
> wget http://gcompris.net/incoming/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/gcompris.mo
> sudo cp gcompris.mo /usr/share/locale-langpack/fr/LC_MESSAGES/
> <Enter your user password>
> 
> Then start GCompris, it should be properly translated.
> 
> Let me know if this works.
> 
> It let me think that we definitely need an How To. I started one with
> this workaround in our wiki at :
> http://gcompris.net/wiki/index.php/HowTo
> 
> Bruno.