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[Feature request] Adding option to install language packs in Debian if possible #673

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bungadrum opened this issue Sep 25, 2024 · 0 comments
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bungadrum commented Sep 25, 2024

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Recently after setting up Debian I noticed that the Language-pack packages are not available in any of it's software repositories. I have a few games that need "LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8" locale to run a game or the symbols in the installer and the fonts will look all weird with squares and symbols similar in a way if you don't install Nerd font in Linutil. All I do is paste that command in terminal and navigate in the window to the executable and run with Wine when I use Ubuntu. All Debian offers you is to change the locale with dpkg-reconfigure locales and rebooting the system, but that is tedious work if all you want to do is run a game or program which requires a specific language. The other solution it gives you is mozc-ut, but I don't know if you can run a executible or msi for Windows games or programs with that or how it's done.

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Ubuntu does this better in it's software repositories you have a list of all the Language-packs available all you have to do is type for example "sudo apt install language-pack-ja" or any other. All the package languages are seperated you can install any you want. Would it be possible to download them from Ubuntu's software repositories and run them in Debian? In Linutil under "Utilites" there could be a category called "Language Pack" and you would select the language you need and install them. If it works on Ubuntu which is based of Debian and uses .deb would this also work in Debian as well?

https://pkgs.org/search/?q=Language-pack

Describe alternatives you've considered

I noticed that Spiral Linux which is Debian based has a Language Pack option for installation, but I don't know if it has all the language options that Ubuntu repositories have the link above. If it does would it be possible to incorporate them for Debian and every Debian based distro to have as well.

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If possible to also install "fonts-takao" those are available in some Debian based distros, but not all of them same with Ubuntu based distros some have them and some don't. Some games that require asian locale need them or symbols will look weird.

Spiral Linux:
language-pack

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