[frgeek-michiana] Update Carol's Spanish/English FreeBox
- From: "Tom Brown" <tbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 20:16:13 -0400
I had to update the system in Spanish because I don't know how to switch the
system to English. I searched Google on "ubuntu switch language" and got
this relevant hit.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwitchingLanguages
"To change the language of your next session, you will need to change it
from the login screen. Before logging in, click on Options (found in the
bottom left corner of the login screen) > Select Language and choose the
language for your next session."
However, the system doesn't display the Options button mentioned in the
instructions above. So I tried "guest" on the theory the login is predicated
on the user name, "invitatos" for Spanish and "guest" for English. But that
is not the case. I logged in as "invitatos".
I found the package update menu item (Gestor de actualizaciones) and the
Synaptic menu item (Gestor de paquetes Synaptic). Synaptic updated the
package cache and installed only three files: librsvg2-2, librsvg2-common
and linux-libc-dev. To me, these didn't seem related to language updates.
Google says they are related to a "SAX-based renderer library for SVG files
(runtime). The rsvg library is an efficient renderer for Scalable Vector
Graphics (SVG) pictures. This package contains the runtime library,
necessary to run applications using librsvg."
There is "Sistema > Administracion > Soporte de idiomas." I tried to follow
it. The options on one dialog box clearly listed languages, but I failed to
understand well enough to make coherent choices and closed the dialogs
before I wrecked the system.
Carol's Spanish PC is on my bench at work. If someone can lead me through
(in Spanish) how to get the system back to English, maybe I can install the
files that are missing tomorrow afternoon or evening.
Tom Brown
System/Network Administrator
River Bend Hose Specialty, Inc.
office: 574-233-1133 x228
mobile: 574-298-2706
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