a.. During the installation I found the arabic (Saudi Arabia) language, so I
checked the box. Ok?
b.. http://arabeyes.sourceforge.net/images/screenshots/kde3/index.html proves
it's possible
c.. Now, I tried to change the Interface language to Arabic but no language except
English! I have told this guy, I live in Saudi Arabia.
d.. I have to do it manually, I thought. So, I searched for the kde-i18n-ar-3.0.rpm
in the accompanied disks but no such a package. RedHat doesn't support KDE RPM'
well (forget about Arabic) for bad reasons.
e.. I searched the Internet and found the RPM for the kde-i18n-ar - a Mandrake
version. The installation failed.
I would suggest the following: either drop RedHat completely (and let them know you are
disappointed at their lack of support of KDE), or compile everything from source (the
entire KDE environmet). Up to you. I would do both (drop RH, and compile from source on
whatever distro you use ;).
f.. I downloaded kde-i18n-ar-3.0.1.tar.bz2
g.. $ tar jxvf kde-i18n-ar-3.0.1.tar.bz2
$ cd kde-i18n-ar
$ ./configure
$ make && make install
But no Arabic language is available yet. Here is part of what happened.
------------------Cut here--------------
[root at localhost kde-i18n-ar]# tar jxvf kde-i18n-ar-3.0.1.tar.bz2
...
[root at localhost src]# cd kde-i18n-ar
[root at localhost kde-i18n-ar]# ./configure
a.. Ok! may be I was wrong, so I decided to install the Russian language.
It installs. I haven't expected the desktop interface to be Russianized (and
hence didn't concentrate on the icon of the desktop Settings Wizard), I needed
some time to figure out how to return to the English Interface. Now I know I should
The problem here it seems that wherever your KDE files are stored, as the RPM's put
them, is not in /usr/local/kde... which is where the Arabic interface was installed.
Since I don't know abut the organization of the KDE rpm's for RH, I can't tell you where
to install it.. but find where your KDE stuff is, and then use that directory as the
prefix when doing a ./configure on the kde-i18n-ar file:
$ ./configure --prefix=/my/kde/dir