Re: Adding new language/locale to system via a graphical interface
2022, ജനുവരി 6 2:26:33 PM IST, Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org>ൽ എഴുതി
>Hi,
>
>On Mon, Jan 03, 2022 at 03:29:06PM +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote:
>>
>>
>> On തി, ജനു 3 2022 at 12:09:10 രാവിലെ +0200 +0200, Peter Pentchev
>> <roam@ringlet.net> wrote:
>> > On Mon, Jan 03, 2022 at 02:59:26AM +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote:
>> > > Hi,
>> > >
>> > > I'm looking for a way to add a new locale/language to system from
>> > > gnome
>> > > (think about gnome on mobile like Purism Librem 5 or Pine Phone). I
>> > > can do
>> > > that from a terminal by running dpkg-reconfigure locales but want
>> > > to provide
>> > > an easier option to users. Is there a way to force gtk interface of
>> > > debconf
>> > > and launch it from graphical interface? In Ubuntu, there is
>> > > separate add
>> > > language tool which can add new languages.
>> >
>> > The debconf(7) manual page suggests that setting DEBIAN_FRONTEND=gnome
>> > after installing the libgtk3-perl package ought to work, and it seems to
>> > work for me:
>> >
>> > sudo env DEBIAN_FRONTEND=gnome dpkg-reconfigure locales
>> >
>> > ...brings up a GTK+ interface.
>> >
>>
>> Thanks! I need to run xhost + to be able to launch this. Is there another
>> way to lauch this graphically without having to run xhost +. May be
>> something using policykit?
>
>If you drop the "env" in that command, then the XAUTHORITY environment
>variable will be retained and you shouldn't need to muck about with X
>authorization.
>
In Pure OS, the plan is to use systemd-localed and it was just a regression https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/gnome-control-center/-/issues/124#note_183751 so we don't need to reconfigure locales for adding locale.
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