Re: Dealing with installation of langpacks

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On Thu, Dec 19, 2024 at 8:25 AM Alexey Lunev <cheembox573@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Dec 19, 2024. 16:37:06 UTC+3, Petr Pisar wrote:
> > V Thu, Dec 19, 2024 at 03:30:58PM +0300, Alexey Lunev napsal(a):
> > > If I recall correctly, there is no way to install langpacks from GUI, so
> > > to
> > > fix this user need to surf the internet to find console command and figure
> > > out how and where to execute it.
> >
> > Do you mean installing them within GUI after installing the system?
> Yes.
>
> > Do you
> > think that implementing this feature would make your need of having the
> > langpaks on the installation media unnecessary?
> Partly. It will help install langpacks without __scary__ console, but user
> still needs to install them manually (usually after finding out it's missing).
>
> > Do GUI package managers
> > present copms groups? We could wrap a langpack RPM package into a group or
> > an environment.
> >
> > > this also won't work without internet connection.
> >
> > With this premise there is no other way then placing the packages on the
> > installation medium.
> Placing the packages on installation medium is best in my opinion, but it will
> make ISO bigger (and slower to download).
>
> >
> > If having all langpacks on the media is too expensive (people usually
> > install only few languages), maybe we could append the required langpacks
> > onto the installation media with the installation media writer (or how the
> > piece of software which downloads ISO and writes on a USB mass storage
> > device is called).
> I don't think most users install their Fedora with Fedora Media Writer (KDE
> spin, for example, doesn't specify this on it's download page). It also
> requires some manual action apart from downloading ISO and burning it onto
> flash drive.
>

The reason it's not there is because the Fedora Spin template doesn't
have it. That can be fixed.



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