Re: [debian-knoppix] Please, add lithuanian language to knoppix
Hello Mantas,
No problems with lithuanian language support, except for a technical one:
- How do you fit 8MB of locale and font files on a CD that has 0 Bytes
of space left?
A solution of this problem would be, for example: A local LT user group
volunteers to delete other locale packages (apt-get --purge remove) from
each new download version of Knoppix in order to create a localized LT
version. I will add links to your special lithuanian-enhanced version(s),
if you like, on the Knoppix homepage.
So far, it does not seem possible to add more languages than the ones
which are already present, and I may even have to delete some of these
when existing programs grow in size.
About your other questions:
- There is no Knoppix bugzilla until someone volunteers to create and
actively maintain one.
- There ARE md5 files on every mirror that provides Knoppix, for every
image.
- I will check if debsums still fits, for the next release, though
nobody has found this an important missing feature yet.
Regards
-Klaus Knopper
On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 05:15:14PM +0200, Mantas Kriauciunas wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm from public organisation "Open Source for Lithuania" (www.akl.lt). Recently I found this excellent product (Knoppix ;)). It is very good for promoting linux, because it's easy to use and it is based on another very good product - Debian.
> Our organisation would like to coordinate lithuanian language support in Knoppix. I've tested Knoppix and found, that lithuanian locale should be supported (I tried dpkg-reconfigure locales and found, that lithuanian locale is enabled, also I tried to write some lithuanian symbols in OpenOffice and KDE and tried to start some localised programs like AbiWord). I found these problems:
>
> 1. There are problems with lithuanian locale - there are no
> /usr/share/locale/lt directory and for example when I start
> abiword I get AbiWord in lithuanian but only english symbols are displayed.
>
> 2. kde-i18n-lt package is not installed :(
> knoppix@ttyp2[lt]$ dpkg -s kde-i18n-lt
> Package: kde-i18n-lt
> Status: purge ok not-installed
> Priority: optional
> Section: x11
>
> 3. there are no option lang=lt in boot, I'm attaching the strings, that should be added in /etc/init.d/knoppix-autoconfig to this message.
>
> 4. there are no scalable fonts with iso8859-13, iso8859-4,iso8859-10 or iso10646 encodings (RedHat already has these fonts). Because of this I can't write lithuanian symbols in OpenOffice, but there are no problems in other programs, like mozilla, Kword, Kedit, etc.
>
> Btw, where is knoppix bugzilla ?
>
> Also I found, that there are no way to check if CD is burned without
> errors. Debian has file md5sum.txt in CD, but I don't see anythink like
> this in knoppix CD :( I have problems with opening hdinstall
> documantation (iso file is correct, I checked md5 before burning CD):
>
> knoppix@ttyp2[lt]$ cat /usr/share/doc/knoppix-hdinstall/README.Debian
> cat: /usr/share/doc/knoppix-hdinstall/README.Debian: Input/output error
>
> maybe you should add debsums package in knoppix ?
>
> Thanks for excellent product,
>
> Mantas Kriauciunas <mantas@akl.lt>
> Jabber ID: <mantas@akl.lt>
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