Open Office does not install localization package by default

[Ansus]

I have Ubuntu 8.04 fully configured for Russian language. When I check to install Open Office, it installs only English-language interface, although Russian language pack exists in the repository. It creates Gnome menu items in Russian, but when you start the programm, it's only in English, no Russian inteface, units, spellchecker. To install Russian language pack one should do non-intuitive thing: run Synaptic packet manager (but not 'Add-remove programs' applet), find Russian localization pack among about 100 other language packs and install it. I think some people even may decide that Open Office does not support Russian interface at all because there is no such option to set Russian language interface just after install in the OOo settings.

[Pablo Castellano (pablocastellano)]

Confirmed. I have also marked as duplicate one bug that said the same with spanish localization.
In my opinion, this should be fixed for Intrepid final release.

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

Do you have the package language-support-translations-ru installed? It depends on the openoffice.org-l10n-ru, openoffice.org-help-ru packages which should localize OpenOffice.org for Russian.

[Ansus (neptunia)]

If to install localization package through synaptic, all works well. But by default nothing installed.

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

OpenOffice.org isn't supposed to install the localization, it is the Ubuntu installer that does that for whatever language you select. I am reassigning this to ubiquity.

[Adolfo Jayme Barrientos (fitojb)]

Since 2011, Ubuntu does not ship OpenOffice.org anymore. Also, language-selector should do the trick now with libreoffice.

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

Actually the incomplete language support should eventually pop up and install the missing language packs.
Or one can manually run "Language Support" application from the menus to check and install missing language packs, translations etc.