[RULE] Language support [was: Re: About the screenshot tool]

[Michael Fratoni]

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On Tuesday 27 May 2003 04:16 pm, Ingo Lantschner wrote:
> > At runtime run 'locale'
>
> "command not found", well I thought that this is because of a rulified
> system and was looking for the package containing this file. To my
> surprise it was glibc-common, which says nothing too me but I
> remembered from checking the install_log that there was an errormessage
> regarding glibc.
> Here it is: Error reported while installing
> glibc-common-2.3.2-11.9.i386.rpm.
>
> So after installing this missing package the error in Screenshot-dialog
> dows NO more apear and I get now wonderfull screenshots of a wonderfull
> system :-).
>
> Thank you for dipping my nose into the right direction! Ingo.
>
> P.S. Just for completness:
> > Bootup config file: /etc/sysconfig/i18n
>
> LANG="en_US"
> SUPPORTED="en_US.UTF-8:en_US:en"
> SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16"

OK, glad you got that sorted out.

Now, could you do me a favor? I'd like to know what package groups you 
have selected on your machines, and the disk space used when complete.

I've been playing with various rpm options, and am thinking of 
implementing an option to the installer letting the user select what 
languages to support. For example, selecting only English support reduces 
the installed size of glibc-common's locale files from 65M to 4.5M....

I've just finished an install with English language only support.
I installed the base, network, openssh, sendmail, TinyX, and AbiWord 
packages.

[mfratoni at shrike mfratoni]$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda3             4.9G  436M  4.4G   9% /
none                  251M     0  251M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda1              51M  9.0M   40M  19% /boot

445M doesn't seem too bad, considering I have a working X and a word 
processor.

What got this started is the fact that, sooner or later, someone is going 
to want to know how to switch their new slinky system to something other 
than English. With a little experimenting, it turns out to be fairly 
simple to switch. (As a matter of fact, specifying the default language 
during install wouldn't be too difficult either.) I've now booted in 
English, Russian, German, Italian, Spanish and a few others. Icewm works 
with all of them except Russian. I haven't found the problem there just 
yet, it could be the icewm message catalogs.

Since the default install currently installs all language files, switching 
is currently possible as well, but must be done manually after the 
install. It's as simple as installing redhat-config-language, and editing 
the "SUPPORTED" line in /etc/sysconfig/i18n. Possible values are listed 
in /usr/share/redhat-config-language/locale-list

You'd need to install the proper fonts for some locales, but other than 
that, it should be fairly painless.

Other packages that might make life easier include:
redhat-config-keyboard and redhat-config-time

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