On the live-cd language-selector offers me installing packages which I don't need (it haven't connection with selected language)

[Petr Tomeš]

I download, burned and used following: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/dapper/flight-6/dapper-live-i386.iso

On boot screen I choosed Czech language and set up the internet (ethernet) connection throught Network settings. Then I wanted to see, how I could install more langauge support for Czech. I started Language Support (from System menu) and appeared following dialog (see my screenshot on this bugreport):

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The language support is not installed completely

Not all translations or writing aids, that are available for the supported languages on your system, are installed.

Details
mozilla-firefox-locale-fr-fr (220k)
mozilla-firefox-locale-de-de (158k)
mozilla-firefox-locale-zh-tw (143k)
mozilla-firefox-locale-zh-cn (152k)
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I don't know why I am offered to install several language packs for Mozilla Firefox. I choosed Czech language on the boot screen of LiveCD. I don't want to install language packs for languages, which didn't choose anywhere.

I choosed "Remind me later" option. Then I activate Czech language support and press OK button. None of above packages were downloaded and installed. So I think offering to install that packages is an annoying bug.

[Petr Tomeš (ptomes)]

Screenshot

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for your bugreport.

Can you please tell me what the output of the following command is:

$ dpkg -l language-pack-fr language-pack-de language-pack-zh

and append the output to this bugreport?

Thanks,
 Michael

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Did you install using the live-cd? It seems that the live-cd has some language-packs pre-installed and that they are not removed when you do the final install.

That is why language-selector detects the missing translations for firefox.

Colin, can we change this in the installer? Or should language-selector work around this somehow?

Cheers,
 Michael

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

After reading the bugreport again it it seems like I misunderstood it at first. This is all on the live-cd, right?

[Petr Tomeš (ptomes)]

"After reading the bugreport again it it seems like I misunderstood it at first. This is all on the live-cd, right?"

Yes. I am now prepare to do your instructions and post here the output. Shall I still do it?

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

But the live CD installer *does* remove those extra language support packages if they aren't needed ... or at least it's supposed to.

[Petr Tomeš (ptomes)]

I didn't speak about Live CD installer but about installing language support on Live CD sessions to see Ubuntu LiveCD cabability of support Czech interface. It's immportant for every user, who want to try Ubuntu LiveCD on local/native language before potentional decision to install it on harddisk.

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

It seems the only bug here is that the user is prompted to install the additional language support packages on the live CD, which they very likely don't want unless they have selected that language for their session.

Michael, is it feasible to fix this for 6.06?

[Petr Tomeš (ptomes)]

Confirmed on Ubuntu 6.06 beta 2 DesktopCD (i386).

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

This is fixed in my bzr tree now and will be uploaded shortly.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

I talked to Mithrandir and he suggested to rewrite the desktop file in the live-session to use the new "-n" option that will skip the verification for full language support on startup. The upload of language-selector_0.1.20 has the required support.

I will subscribe Tollef for the remaining bits.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Reassigned to casper because it needs to modify the live-session to update language-selectors desktop file to run it with "-n" to supress the check for missing language-packs

[Tollef Fog Heen (tfheen)]

Fixed in bzr.

[Tollef Fog Heen (tfheen)]

casper (1.71) edgy; urgency=low

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 -- Tollef Fog Heen <email address hidden> Wed, 4 Oct 2006 09:52:06 +0200