[Bug 1294858] Re: Installer does not install all language support packages

[Akerbeltz]

We had what looks like exactly the same headache with GIMP on Mac a
month ago. In case it helps, here's the writeup of the problem and
solution:

>
Fault finding eventually got us to running
$ locale
which on my machine resulted in LANG and LC_ALL being blank whereas Partha's machine offered

LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

After running

$ export LC_ALL="de_DE.UTF-8
$ cd /ApplicationS/Gimp-2.8.app/Contents/MacOS
$ ./gimp-bin

It came up in German and following
$ export LC_ALL="gd.UTF-8

it came up in Gaelic. Partha diagnosed that "The previous default you
had was "C" which mean gtk will always provide you an English
interface." Partha's current build has some fix that means that the
dropdown now shows all languages and implements them correctly.

And Partha added:
>
I use a script to launch Gimp and make all the libraries available. The script is inspired by Simone's 2.6.x script and modified for my
builds.

So, I set the language in the script and you all set. The script obviously creates a local environment and so it does not interfere
with the User Interface language. 

Without the language setting, GTK will set the locale to "C" and Gimp
will not be able to change it. With a language setting, GTK is happy and
Gimp is happy.

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Title:
  Installer does not install all language support packages

Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  My very first own package, mythes-sv, has just been sponsored into
  Debian and Ubuntu. :)

  It's a Swedish thesaurus for LibreOffice, and if I install Swedish via
  language-selector, it's pulled as expected through /usr/share
  /language-selector/data/pkg_depends.

  However, when I did a fresh install with Swedish as the selected
  language, and connected to Internet, mythes-sv was not installed at
  first login. My first theory was that it might be due to the fact that
  it's in universe, but when I opened language-selector, there were
  several other language support packages missing, most of them in main.

  I would think that the desired behavior is that as long as you are
  connected to the net while installing, the installer should pull all
  the applicable language support packages, not only some of them. So
  the only situation when language-selector should need to prompt you
  about not installed language support packages when you open it should
  be if one or more packages were added to the archive.

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