Change GUI/Menu's language to Chromium on Ubuntu 12.04

Question

I'd like to change chromium language from English to Italian on an Ubuntu 12.04 based on English locale. Thanks for helping

Answer 1

After trying many solutions that did not work for me, here's something that just worked fine (not on Ubuntu but Linux Mint).

 sudo apt-get install chromium-browser-l10n

Answer 2

well for only one application means not possible but you can do it with placing a new environment variable.

I mean open your terminal and type as

sudo apt-get install language-pack-it
export LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
chromium

this is to launch chromium from terminal and it will be in Italian. when you close the terminal the session of Italian language will be gone.

Answer 3

I believe, when you say chromium, it means chromium browser.

Here are the steps for anyone else interested.

1. Install language pack. $ sudo apt-get install language-pack-it

2. Find the "startup script" of chromium-browser. $ vim which chromium-browser

3. Add the following line in "startup script". $ export LANG=it_IT.UTF-8