On Fri, 5 Jun 2015 15:03:55 +0530
Himanshu Shekhar himanshushekhar...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello
I am a Linux enthusiast and have started using Debian a few days back
after using Ubuntu for 2 years. Debian is really awesome and doesn't
crash. Well, right now I have two major issues :
1. Debian cannot display languages as Hindi, not even Google Hindi in
Chromium.
2. I just get confused in app names in Synaptic and want to install
apps without using DVD easily.
It would be great for this newbie to be properly guided.
Hi!
First things first: please understand that this list is not a place to
ask for general user help as it's dedicated to the development of
Debian itself, so it features hard-core deeply technical discussions.
Tomas already pointed you to right directions for getting help so I
won't repeat that.
As to your specific problem with displaying Hindi text in Chrome,
I think that your system just misses the necessary fonts (that is, data
files that provide drawable representations for characters of a
specific language. The basic Debian system supposedly only installs
fonts for the most commonly used scripts such as Western Latin etc.
I did a quick search among the available packages on my Debian Wheezy
system, and got this:
~% apt-cache search font hindi
fonts-deva-extra - Free fonts for Devanagari script
fonts-lohit-deva - Lohit TrueType font for Devanagari script
fonts-nakula - Free Unicode compliant Devanagari font
fonts-sahadeva - Free Unicode compliant Devanagari font
fonts-samyak-deva - Samyak TrueType font for Devanagari script
emacs-intl-fonts - Fonts to allow multi-lingual PostScript printing
task-hindi - Hindi environment
You can safely ignore the emacs-intl-fonts package as it is for use
with a particular text editor, but the others seem interesting,
in particular, the last one:
~% apt-cache show task-hindi
Package: task-hindi
Source: tasksel
Version: 3.14.1
Installed-Size: 21
Maintainer: Debian Install System Team debian-b...@lists.debian.org
Architecture: all
Depends: tasksel
Recommends: aspell-hi
Description-en: Hindi environment
This task installs programs, data files, fonts, and
documentation that makes it easier for Hindi speakers
to use Debian.
[...]
Now, let's do a more targeted search:
~% apt-cache search task hindi
task-hindi - Hindi environment
task-hindi-desktop - Hindi desktop
task-hindi-kde-desktop - Hindi KDE desktop
So I'd say task-hindi-desktop would be a safe bet for you.
AFAIK, the next logical things to do is to (all commands are to be
execured in a console window):
1) Install that task package:
# apt-get install task-hindi-desktop
2) Install the packages referenced by that task:
* Run tasksel:
# tasksel
* Select the task for Hindi Desktop in the list,
then press OK in the interface.
See https://wiki.debian.org/tasksel for more.
May be others will provide you with more user-friendly solutions
(I don't use tools like Synaptic anyway so can't help with this).
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