Install/Remove Language show only English, no other choice

Question

First of all Sorry for my poor English.

So my question is, when i want to choose other language to install, it show only English installed [checked], but what i can see in the other post, there have list of languages that allow user to choose. see this print screen

I am a totally new in Linux, What should i do to get the list of languages appear? and why is this happen? Is that because i skipped the language packs during installation? Sorry if this question exist before, i cant find it.

Thanks

Answer 1

Something appears to be missing. It's not the fact that you might have skipped language support at the time of installation as I have an EeePC that I installed without a network connection and I can indeed get to a full language selection screen by clicking the Install/Remove Languages button as per the instructions below.

The only things I can think for you to do at the moment is install the languages individually as suggested by Mowgli, or try to re-install the gnome language selector and see if that fixes the problem:

sudo apt-get --reinstall install language-selector-gnome

You then need to open the language selector from system settings and click on the button Install/Remove Languages. You will get a separate window that opens where you can select additional languages to install.

Answer 2

I don't know why the options are not coming up. A work-around is to try install languages from the terminal.

The following command will list language packs that can be installed:

apt-cache search language-pack

The packs can be install by entering (for French):

sudo apt-get install language-pack-fr-base
sudo apt-get install language-pack-fr

Replace 'fr' by the language code of your choice found by running the very first command.

Answer 3

I already resolve it, the main reason why the options are not showing up is because i didn't update it(i skipped updates during installation), so I just simply type in:

sudo apt-get update

after finish update, the languages magically appear, Forgive the Stupid me. D:

Answer 4

Go to system settings, in system settings, go to keyboard layout. in language tab, select any one with bracket. For example:

Chinese
English
English(Australia)
English(Canada)
English(NZ)
English(UK)