[Hardy] mozilla-firefox-locale-es-* is not installed, despite my locale is set to Castilian (Spanish) / Firefox is only available in English

[Gustavo Narea]

The title says it all.

Also, after I installed mozilla-firefox-locale-es-ar and mozilla-firefox-locale-es-es Firefox's interface was still in English, so I went to about:config and property "general.useragent.locale" was set to "en-US", while my language is set to Castilian (Spanish).

I've set that property to "es-AR", "es_AR", "es-ES", "es_ES", "es-VE", "es_VE" and "es", but nothing happens: Firefox's interface is still in English.

To sum up, Firefox is still in English and I've not found a workaround for this bug.

This applies to both Firefox 2 and 3.

[Rafael Belmonte (eaglescreen)]

Using Kubuntu hardy and Firefox 2:
Firefox 2 version in repository is 2.0.0.13, but firefox-locale-* packages are 2.0.0.7 version, so they do not work in Firefox.

Using Firefox 3:
There are not language packages for Firefox 3 in repository.

[Oscar Manuel Gómez Senovilla (omgs)]

I experience something similar. It looks like there's somewhere a package in ubuntu repositories for es-AR locale that gets installed in /usr/lib/firefox-3.0b5/extensions/. Performing "aptitude search firefox" doesn't show specific locale packages for firefox 3. However, my previous installation (and the default language for gnome evironment) is es-es, so firefox 3 is the only package (AFAIK) what is not currently in es-es. I want developers/packagers to realize that there's an es-ES localization for all firefox 3.x, so if none is included in the repositories yet, please do so *AND* make sure the corresponding upgrade updates firefox settings, according to the locale preferences in gnome.

The current behaviuor (using firefox 3, not firefox 2, which I didn't try yet in Hardy) is that, whatever es_* I set, I get es-AR, even seeing in the about dialog box the locale I set. I've tested this both in a clean Hardy installation and an upgrade from Gutsy.

[João Neves (jneves)]

Firefox 3 translation is in language-pack-gnome-es. mozilla-firefox-locale-* only have the translations for Firefox 2.

At the moment this will get you the es-AR langpack, but that's another bug (being corrected next week, as far as I was told): https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.0/+bug/222673

[Nukeador (nukeador)]

For those interested, the official es-ES xpi is here:

http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.0b5/linux-i686/xpi/es-ES.xpi

Maybe this could be fixed with an update.

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

firefox 3.0 has the locales in the gnome-locales package not mozilla locales. This shouldnt be an issue with firefox 2 as most if not all locales should be in there unless noone looked in april due to freeze was in place and we are unable to fix that this late. most of mozilla,s upstream locales work was done around beginning of april and thats too late for us to add them. this will not get fixed in firefox 2 as its not a security rish/update. please test firefox 3.0 locales in gnome-locales package and let me know if they are there. I will give you the exact name in a little while i just got called away

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

ok knew i saw a dup of this. marked as such and its being worked on.

[Oscar Manuel Gómez Senovilla (omgs)]

As I wrote before, es-ES is not in the package, unlike es-AR:

# dpkg -L language-pack-gnome-es-base|grep firefox
/usr/lib/firefox-addons
/usr/lib/firefox-addons/extensions
/<email address hidden>
/<email address hidden>/chrome.manifest
/<email address hidden>/install.rdf
/<email address hidden>/chrome
/<email address hidden>/chrome/es-AR.jar

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

firefox 2 is not a main package anymore. thus the language packs are
not automatically installed if you use the language selector.

So until we support universe translations through language selector,
this is won't fix.

 status wontfix

Thanks,

On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 12:37:35PM -0000, GustavoNarea wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> The title says it all.
>
> Also, after I installed mozilla-firefox-locale-es-ar and mozilla-
> firefox-locale-es-es Firefox's interface was still in English, so I went
> to about:config and property "general.useragent.locale" was set to "en-
> US", while my language is set to Castilian (Spanish).
>
> I've set that property to "es-AR", "es_AR", "es-ES", "es_ES", "es-VE",
> "es_VE" and "es", but nothing happens: Firefox's interface is still in
> English.
>
> To sum up, Firefox is still in English and I've not found a workaround
> for this bug.
>
> This applies to both Firefox 2 and 3.
>
> ** Affects: firefox (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>
> ** Description changed:
>
> The title says it all.
>
> Also, after I installed mozilla-firefox-locale-es-ar and mozilla-
> firefox-locale-es-es Firefox's interface was still in English, so I went
> to about:config and property "general.useragent.locale" was set to "en-
> US", while my language is set to Castilian (Spanish).
>
> I've set that property to "es-AR", "es_AR", "es-ES", "es_ES", "es-VE",
> "es_VE" and "es", but nothing happens: Firefox's interface is still in
> English.
>
> To sum up, Firefox is still in English and I've not found a workaround
> for this bug.
> +
> + This applies to both Firefox 2 and 3.
>

 - Alexander

[jack (benbenny)]

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 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Alexander Sack <email address hidden>
> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 222673 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/222673
>
> firefox 2 is not a main package anymore. thus the language packs are
> not automatically installed if you use the language selector.
>
> So until we support universe translations through language selector,
> this is won't fix.
>
> status wontfix
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 12:37:35PM -0000, GustavoNarea wrote:
> > Public bug reported:
> >
> > The title says it all.
> >
> > Also, after I installed mozilla-firefox-locale-es-ar and mozilla-
> > firefox-locale-es-es Firefox's interface was still in English, so I went
> > to about:config and property "general.useragent.locale" was set to "en-
> > US", while my language is set to Castilian (Spanish).
> >
> > I've set that property to "es-AR", "es_AR", "es-ES", "es_ES", "es-VE",
> > "es_VE" and "es", but nothing happens: Firefox's interface is still in
> > English.
> >
> > To sum up, Firefox is still in English and I've not found a workaround
> > for this bug.
> >
> > This applies to both Firefox 2 and 3.
> >
> > ** Affects: firefox (Ubuntu)
> > Importance: Undecided
> > Status: New
> >
> > ** Description changed:
> >
> > The title says it all.
> >
> > Also, after I installed mozilla-firefox-locale-es-ar and mozilla-
> > firefox-locale-es-es Firefox's interface was still in English, so I went
> > to about:config and property "general.useragent.locale" was set to "en-
> > US", while my language is set to Castilian (Spanish).
> >
> > I've set that property to "es-AR", "es_AR", "es-ES", "es_ES", "es-VE",
> > "es_VE" and "es", but nothing happens: Firefox's interface is still in
> > English.
> >
> > To sum up, Firefox is still in English and I've not found a workaround
> > for this bug.
> > +
> > + This applies to both Firefox 2 and 3.
> >
>
> - Alexander
>
>
> ** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu)
> Status: Incomplete => Won't Fix
>
> --
> [Hardy] mozilla-firefox-locale-es-* is not installed, despite my locale is set
> to Castilian (Spanish) / Firefox is only available in English
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/216771
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> in ubuntu.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 09:34:30PM -0000, Oscar Manuel Gómez Senovilla wrote:
> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 222673 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/222673
>
> As I wrote before, es-ES is not in the package, unlike es-AR:
>
> # dpkg -L language-pack-gnome-es-base|grep firefox
> /usr/lib/firefox-addons
> /usr/lib/firefox-addons/extensions
> /<email address hidden>
> /<email address hidden>/chrome.manifest
> /<email address hidden>/install.rdf
> /<email address hidden>/chrome
> /<email address hidden>/chrome/es-AR.jar
>

that should be fixed in hardy-updates.

 status fixreleased

 - Alexander

[Oscar Manuel Gómez Senovilla (omgs)]

I can confirm that updating from the updates repository fixes the problem. Thanks for the fix.