LO 5.0 new languages

l10n
#1

Hello

I've been following the development of LO 5.0 very closely lately and I am aware that RC4 should be starting within the next few days.

I am using linux and have been testing LO 5.0 from the pre-releases ppa (https://launchpad.net/~libreoffice/+archive/ubuntu/libreoffice-prereleases). I am very excited for this new version and so far it is looking great! I was wondering if any of the new languages will be added to ppa anytime soon? I noticed the guarani l10n-gug is still not there, and maybe other new languages as well.

Personally, I am not a fan of building LO from source, mostly because internet here in Paraguay is slow and also because it takes too long to build.

Thanks

-Gio

#2

Giovanni,

Launchpad PPAs have a space limit, so they only provide a subset of
languages. That has already been complained about in this list, BTW.

You can get in touch with Björn or Rico (the PPA maintainers) if you wish.

Adolfo

#3

Hello,
As an alternative you can download the .deb packages from
http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/pre-releases/ and install with a script:

#bin/bash
Version="5.0.0.3"
InstallPack="LibreOffice_"$Version"_Linux_x86_deb"
LanguagePack="LibreOffice_"$Version"_Linux_x86_deb_langpack_da"
HelpPack="LibreOffice_"$Version"_Linux_x86_deb_helppack_da"

echo "*********************"
echo "Version is $Version"
echo "Installing application $InstallPack"
sudo dpkg -i $InstallPack/DEBS/*.deb
echo "*********************"
echo "Installing language $LanguagePack"
sudo dpkg -i $LanguagePack/DEBS/*.deb
echo "*********************"
echo "Installing help $HelpPack"
sudo dpkg -i $HelpPack/DEBS/*.deb
echo "*********************"
echo "Done installing"

Cheers,
Leif

#4

Didn't we have a bug filed (or maybe a feature request?) for a smarter way of setting locales from within LO by pulling down langpacks? Presumably this would fix the problem for all those locales in the Ubuntu PPA too.

Michael

Sgrìobh Adolfo Jayme Barrientos na leanas 16/07/2015 aig 11:25:

#5

Ah found it, filed it last year. It never got past the discussion stage, partly because user Urmas started going down a "who cares about non-majority-languages" line of argument.
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=82184&redirected_from=fdo

Though other people have expressed positive views in general; seem to be some issues around MSI - Linux wasn't mentioned. Since other software does it, I can't see any of these being insurmountable. But sadly I can't do code.

Michael

Sgrìobh Adolfo Jayme Barrientos na leanas 16/07/2015 aig 11:25: