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When installing mageia (just yesterday) I inadvertently installed only english language support files. So, directories and file names are displayed with special instead of greek characters . Please see attached picture.


Can the problem be corrected without reinstalling mageia and how?
Thanks for your help in advance.

Hi dathrien,

you can change it in the MCC (Control Center):

Go to 'system' and then select 'Manage localization for your system'. There you can select your language - that might work...

Latte,
thanks for the immediate response. I' ve already tried that. Only various versions of english are available to choose from.

Then you should install the locales rpm manually within the MCC or

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urpmi locales-el

(as root in a shell)

I assume it's the correct one for greek letters (according to http://mageia.madb.org/package/show/application/0/name/locales-el), or otherwise you have to look further for the correct locales rpm.

Latte thank you again.
I tried your suggestion . It seems rpmdrake is not installed properly. Here is what I get:


Although I added repositories after installation they are missing. Here is corresponding picture



Interestingly here is a failed attempt to add media
[damon@localhost ~]$ urpmi.addmedia --distrib --mirrorlist '$MIRRORLIST'
bash: urpmi.addmedia: command not found

I suspect all problems have to do with missing greek support files.
I ' d be grateful for any suggestions.

PS I have also posted a related bug report
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7352

dathrien wrote:Interestingly here is a failed attempt to add media
[damon@localhost ~]$ urpmi.addmedia --distrib --mirrorlist '$MIRRORLIST'
bash: urpmi.addmedia: command not found

The only point where I have an answer to: you need to be root for the urpmi.addmedia command

I'm sorry but the other parts with your screenshots are looking strange to me too and I don't have any clue how to solve this Maybe this post will help you further: https://forums.mageia.org/en/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=1646&p=11869&hilit=database+recovery#p11875

Well rpmdrake is now functioning.
I have installed greek locale. But directory and file names are still displayed not correctly.
Thanks for your effort to help me

But is greek now selectable in the localization menu of the MCC? If so, please select it and logout and login again... If that does not work I'm really sorry...

Well, it does not work even after rebooting...
Thanks again

do you have the package kde-l10n-el?

try in a terminal as root:

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urpmi kde-l10n-el

And maybe have a look at https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia_2_Err ... e_settings

I used the ultimate means.
I reinstalled mageia but did not allow the installer to delete "unnecessary" localization files.
That did the trick. Greek fonts work OK in all applications.
Many thanks to everyone who posted an answer.

PS installing kde-l10n-el did not solve the problem.

FWIW, also documented in Errata: https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia_2_Err ... .2Flocales