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Re: Getting arabic to work



Once upon a time Mohammad Saleh wrote @ 28 Apr 2003 01:00:41 -0700

> Salam,
> 
> I'm trying to get arabic to work on linux. The HOWTO is a little bit
> confusing.
> 
> 1 - I don't know how to check for the options of the linux kernel, any
> help is appreciated.
> 
didn't understand ?!!!!

> 2 - Orbit link is not working, on my Debian machine I installed the
> Orbit package but when I tried to install the Akka package it complained
> about fribidi (I don't know where to get the Debian package from since I
> installed the fribidi libs but I doubt the package manager in Debian
> would knows about it)
apt-get install libfribidi0

 apt-cache policy libfribidi0
libfribidi0:
  Installed: 0.10.1-2
  Candidate: 0.10.1-2
  Version Table:
     0.10.4-1 0
         -1 ftp://ftp.jp.debian.org unstable/main Packages
     0.10.4-0.1 0
         -1 ftp://ftp.fr.debian.org testing/main Packages
 *** 0.10.1-2 0
         -1 cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-4 (20020718)] unstable/main Packages
       1001 ftp://ftp.fr.debian.org stable/main Packages
       1001 ftp://ftp2.it.debian.org stable/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status


I have an akka package in my apt repository
I didn't try it though "i know it's not the debian way, but i only added an option to m. Elzubeir's Make files. to avoid lintian errors, so i hope it'll work fine"
deb http://bignachos.com/~uniball/ debian/
deb-src http://bignachos.com/~uniball/ debian/


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