[Bug 1609652] Re: gnome-language-selector incorrectly installed/configured

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

Thanks for your report.

On 2016-08-04 08:42, Peter Goodall wrote:
> One solution proposed was to change language selections from
> Language Support in settings. When I tried this the only languages
> available for selection are US English and English. Other languages,
> including Australian English were visible in the list but
> 'greyed-out'.

The greyed-out items are available for selection, and as is stated in
the UI you are supposed to drag one of them to the top to make it the
main display language.

> I failed by any means to install further language support, including 
> using the 'Install/Remove Languages' button on the "Language Support 
> dialog.

How did you fail? Which error message(s) did you get?


(Please note that gnome-language-selector is a script. The name of the binary package is language-selector-gnome, while language-selector is the name of the source package.)

** Changed in: language-selector (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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Title:
  gnome-language-selector incorrectly installed/configured

Status in language-selector package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  > lsb_release -rd
  Description:	Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS
  Release:	16.04

  I believe that language support is not correctly installed configured.
  I was lead to the gnome-language-selector by trying to understand why
  the Ubuntu Software app failed to find any applications/search its
  database.

  One solution proposed was to change language selections from Language
  Support in settings. When I tried this the only languages available
  for selection are US English and English. Other languages, including
  Australian English were visible in the list but 'greyed-out'.

  I failed by any means to install further language support, including
  using the 'Install/Remove Languages' button on the "Language Support
  dialog.

  When I trued to report this problem I used the system app to find the
  process. It is called gnome-language-selector in the process list and
  process properties. ubuntu-bug said "dpkg-query: no packages found
  matching gnome-language-selector". But there it was in the process
  list. I then used ubuntu-bug -w to initiate this bug report.

  In summary:
   Ubuntu Software Center GUI application  does not work because of some configuration/software error in  'Settings -> Language Support'

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
  Package: language-selector-gnome 0.165.3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-31.50-generic 4.4.13
  Uname: Linux 4.4.0-31-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zcommon znvpair zavl
  ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Thu Aug  4 16:27:57 2016
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-language-selector
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-05-13 (83 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160420.1)
  InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python3.5
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   SHELL=/bin/bash
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   LANGUAGE=en_US
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
  SourcePackage: language-selector
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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