Language cannot be added, even though it has been installed

[dotancohen]

Binary package hint: language-pack-he

I have used the the KDE4 System Settings to install a language, but even after a reboot I still cannot add the language to the list of available languages in KDE. I have filed the bug upstream at KDE, but it appears to be an Ubuntu-specific issue.

Note that despite the similar summaries, this is not a dupe of bug 3186632 (he gets a message that the language pack cannot be found, I do not get this message and in fact System Settings shows that it is installed on my system) nor of bug 275700 (partial translation issue).

[dotancohen (dotancohen)]

In this screenshot it can be seen that there is not option to add Hebrew as a
lanugage.

Note that the computer was reset after installing the language.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

System Settings lives in the kdebase-workspace from Intrepid on. kde-systemsettings is the old KDE3 version. ;-)

[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

localization kcm lives in kdebase-runtime though :P

[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

Official KDE doesn't include Hebrew ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/4.1.2/src/kde-l10n

That makes this issue an duplicate of bug 281779

[dotancohen (dotancohen)]

I filed this bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kdebase-runtime/+bug/280724 (Language cannot be added, even though it has been installed)

It was marked as a dupe, and I do not understand the relation between what I filed and he bug that it was marked a dupe of. Could someone explain how the bugs are related? I am not arguing the decision, I simply want to learn. Thanks!

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

- From bug #281779 I quote: "Every language needs an entry.desktop file in /usr/share/locale-langpack/<lang>"

This line is the key. Without the entry.desktop file, there is no language support.

Your bug report #280724 is that you can't add the language. The answer is you can't add a language that does not have an "entry.desktop" file.

The duplicate tag is because the fix for both bugs is to add the correct "entry.desktop" file for the language.