New Ubuntu locale installation wiped out Firefox locales

[Anonymous]

My system previously had English, Japanese and Swedish language packs (language-pack-xx) installed. This included Firefox in at least Japanese and various English dialects. Then I did the following:

$ sudo apt-get install ibus-hangul language-pack-ko
$ gnome-language-selector

The program gnome-language-selector informed me that I hadn't installed certain programs, such as Thunderbird, in all of the languages for which I had installed Ubuntu language packs and asked me if I wanted to install a lot of xxx-locale-xx packages. I chose to install all of them.

After doing this, Firefox suddenly only had a Korean language pack. Unless Firefox was started with "LANG=ko_KR.UTF-8 firefox", Firefox was in US English, but about:addons didn't list any US English language pack as being installed. Thus, something had wiped out several Firefox locales although it wasn't supposed to do that. I re-installed two of them manually:

$ sudo apt-get install firefox-locale-ja firefox-locale-sv

Other programs, such as Thunderbird and Libreoffice, properly got language packs installed in all languages. My computer has Ubuntu 11.04 and Firefox 5.0, both 32-bit.

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Moving to language-selector for triage. apt-get install does the right thing and pulls in the Firefox language pack.

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

This may have been a one-time glitch for some reason, but I don't think it's a persistent problem, at least not any longer. Closing.