offer to install "language-support-input-ru" by Language support in Ubuntu 10.04

[AndreyPutilov]

Binary package hint: language-selector

I was using Ubuntu 10.04. Now I`ve upgraded up to 10.10, though attached technical information could differ. I was solving some problems with OpenOffice (https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/language-selector/+question/128056), when I saw, that all system menus are in English (my system language was Russian). OpenOffice, Firefox and all non-GNOME applications remained in Russian. I`ve opened Language support, and the utility warned me, that "language-support-input-ru" is missing. I agreed to install, but have no success, because this package is not present in Ubuntu 10.04.

I created a question about this problem, though you can see, how the problem evaluated, here https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/language-selector/+question/128056 (the problem had by far continuation)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: language-selector 0.6.6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-23.36-generic 2.6.35.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-23-generic i686
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: a171c655b191924faf78f2c088617939
CheckboxSystem: 7d44c8a69b1ef3cd64144a94ba3b9242
Date: Sun Oct 31 00:51:49 2010
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=ru:ru_RU:en
 LANG=ru_RU.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: language-selector

[AndreyPutilov (anputilov)]

Maybe you wanted to see some logs installing the package

andrey@andrey-PC:~$ sudo apt-get install language-support-input-ru
[sudo] password for andrey:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package language-support-input-ru is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package language-support-input-ru has no installation candidate

andrey@andrey-PC:~$ LANG=C aptitude show language-pack-ru
Package: language-pack-ru
State: installed
Automatically installed: yes
Version: 1:10.04+20100714
Priority: optional
Section: translations
Maintainer: Language pack maintainers <email address hidden>
Uncompressed Size: 36.9k
Depends: language-pack-ru-base (>= 1:10.04+20100714)
PreDepends: dpkg (>= 1.10.27ubuntu1)
Replaces: language-pack-gnome-ru (< 1:10.04+20100714),
          language-pack-gnome-ru-base (< 1:10.04+20100714), language-pack-kde-ru
          (< 1:10.04+20100714), language-pack-kde-ru-base (< 1:10.04+20100714),
          language-pack-ru (< 1:10.04+20100714), language-pack-ru-base
Description: translation updates for language Russian
 Translation data updates for all supported packages for: Russian

 language-pack-ru-base provides the bulk of translation data and is updated only
 seldom. This package provides frequent translation updates.

 Please note that you should install language-support-ru to get full support for
 this language.

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

Leaving the warning about "language-support-input-ru" aside, I suspect that the problem with non-GNOME apps displaying the wrong language will be solved through a patch I'm working with:
https://code.launchpad.net/~gunnarhj/language-selector/fix-553162/+merge/39791

It would be great if you could test the patch
https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj/+archive/locale-test
and let us know about your observations.

[AndreyPutilov (anputilov)]

Ok, but, for the first, when I worked on this problem, I tried different things, I removed all Russian support and reinstalled it, and such a phenomenon as you work on shortly disappeared.

The second is, that now language started to work, though, please tell me, if I really need this patch, though if this merge is useful, or I should wait until the patch appeared among normal updates?

Anyway I am ready to help)

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

Andrey,
Well, any help with evaluating the patch would be helpful.

OTOH, considering that your problem seems to have been more complex, I cannot guarantee that installing the patch wouldn't mess up things for you again. I fully understand if you choose to wait until the patch is released officially.

[AndreyPutilov (anputilov)]

ok
I am waiting

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

The language-support-input-ru package was considered obsolete and intentionally deleted before the Lucid release. Hence it seems to me that there is no remaining issue in this bug report that is left to be fixed, so I assigned it the status "Invalid". If you think I'm wrong, please change the status again and try to clarify the problem.

[AndreyPutilov (anputilov)]

ok, thank you

[Andrei Emeltchenko (andrei-emeltchenko-finik)]

Have the same bug

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

@Andrei Emeltchenko
I asked for a clarification in connection with a possible status change, and "the same bug" is not clear enough. ;-) Please clarify the nature of the problem you experience.