Currently running Lubuntu 16.10. I have tried to open the language support menu many times, meaning to add Hebrew to my input languages (assuming that's the menu I should be looking at). Every time I open Language Support I get another window that opens saying "Checking available language support". A progress bar then quickly fills up and the window closes along with the language support window. Is there a way for me to fix this problem and access language support? Alternatively, is there a way to add Hebrew to my keyboard without having to open the language support menu?
The paste of the terminal output shows where in the code the error happens. It's a Python bug, and related to the fact that the en_IL locale is relatively new.
$ python3
Python 3.5.2+ (default, Sep 22 2016, 12:18:14)
[GCC 6.2.0 20160927] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import locale
>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_CTYPE, 'en_IL')
'en_IL'
>>> mylocale = locale.getlocale(locale.LC_CTYPE)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/lib/python3.5/locale.py", line 577, in getlocale
return _parse_localename(localename)
File "/usr/lib/python3.5/locale.py", line 486, in _parse_localename
raise ValueError('unknown locale: %s' % localename)
ValueError: unknown locale: en_IL
>>> quit()
This means that with the current locale setting you might encounter problems also with other Python applications, so I would suggest a workaround for now: Replacing en_IL with en_IL.UTF-8 makes Python shut up.
Open a terminal window and run
sudo update-locale LANG=en_IL.UTF-8Log out and log in again
Open Language Support without a crash
I reported the issue in bug #1646260.
answered Nov 30 '16 at 12:33
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The menu now opens without crashing. Upon marking Hebrew and clicking "Apply" in the Install/Remove Languages window, I get: "Failed to download package files Check you internet connection Details: Failed to fetch http:// " Should I post a separate question for this and mark this one as answered or keep working on it under this question? – Alon G. Nov 30 '16 at 13:39
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@AlonG.: I suggest that you first try again. If you get the same error, then open Software & Updates and change the download server to something else but "Server for Israel", for instance "Main server". – Gunnar Hjalmarsson Nov 30 '16 at 14:03
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Tried again but problem persisted. Changing the download server worked. Thank you! – Alon G. Dec 1 '16 at 12:33
gnome-language-selectorand let us know possible error messages by editing your question. – Gunnar Hjalmarsson Nov 29 '16 at 14:52localecommand. – Gunnar Hjalmarsson Nov 29 '16 at 16:31gnome-language-selectorcommand again and show us the full output you see in the terminal window when it fails. – Gunnar Hjalmarsson Nov 29 '16 at 21:12