Hi Denis, thanks for the reply. On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 11:35:57PM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote: > > I'm using an automated install with the debian CD image and a preseed > > file, so ideally I'd like a way to do this automatically from the > > install. Failing that, a shell command which can run > > non-interactively to install every possible locale will suffice. Does > > such a beast exist? > > Since locales 2.3.6-2, there is an "All locales" choice when selecting > locales. Did you try to set locales/locales_to_be_generated to > "All locales"? I guess this isn't an option... I'm using Sarge (required), with locales 2.3.2.ds1-22. > An alternative way which works with any version of the locales package > is to copy /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED into /etc/locale.gen and run > locale-gen. I'll give this a shot. It does appear to work... :) > > And while I'm at it, for many languages, it's not enough for the > > locales to be available. We'll also need the fonts, and all > > associated IMEs to be installed. Is there some magic package I can > > install to msake all of the IMEs for all of the various languages > > available without too much of a hastle? The goal is to set the > > machines up to use UTF-8 by default, so a UTF-8-capable IME system > > (like iiimf) is what we'd prefer. > > > > Is there an easy way to do this? If not, is there some list of > > packages somewhere which will give me what I want? FWIW, the Red Hat > > and/or Fedora installers make this very easy, and I'm looking for the > > same thing on Debian. > > This can be achieved with tasksel, for instance run > grep-dctrl -n -sTask -FSection l10n /usr/share/tasksel/debian-tasks.desc |\ > xargs tasksel install Cool. Looking over that desc file, I can see this is the way to go. But I don't seem to have grep-dctrl on the system... Either this isn't available with Sarge, or I don't have the right packages installed to do this. What packages (if any) provide grep-dctrl? Thanks again! -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0x81CFE75D
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