kdesudo Missing german translation

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In a fresh install of Ubuntu 12.10 (German language), the kdesudo program is not translated. When running "kdesudo kate" the message box that appears says

Kate needs administrative privileges. Please enter your password

instead of the correct german translation. Also, when running just kdesudo without arguments, the message box with the error that I get is also in English.

When I manually download kdesudo.mo from Launchpad translations and copy it to /usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/kdesudo.mo
I get the german translations.

Am I missing some package or is this a bug? This also appears when chosing Settings -> Configure Software Sources (Einstellungen -> Softwarequellen einrichten in german) in Muon.

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[Andrej Mernik (r33d3m33r-deactivatedaccount)]

The problem is that the program language file is not properly named. If you look at the folder /usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/ you will see it has the name is kdesud.mo. Try to rename it to kdesudo.mo and you will see if it works.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

Nah the file is named correctly:

>>> dpkg -L kdesudo |grep /de/
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/kdesudo.mo

However the original po doesn't actually have translations inside... rather unhandy.

[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

Ah, no I get it... kdesud.mo is an entirely different thing it's the kdesu daemon. Unrelated to kdesudo though.

[Rohan Garg (rohangarg)]

Could you check if this works for you in the latest update of kdesudo?

[Juan Sánchez (ecmadrid)]

kdesudo.mo is missing in Ubuntu 14.04 also. Checked in kde-l10n-es

[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

see bug 1267765