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

[Bruno Coudoin]

I checked a little bit and that seems correct. Thanks a lot.

Le mercredi 27 février 2008 à 01:08 -0800, Jordan Mantha a écrit :
> 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.
> 
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