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how to change the application language

Asked by hjkrannig

I want to change the application language in German. When going to Help->Switch application language...all I see is Americane English...

Thanks for your answers...

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Vojtěch Trefný (vojtech.trefny) said : 		#1

In terminal (Applications→Accesories→Terminal):

LANGUAGE="de_DE" application

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hjkrannig (hj-krannig) said : 		#2

.. oK, thanks so long. But...when I type ->sudo LANGUAGE="de_DE" application ...I get a command not found.

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Best Bhavani Shankar (bhavi) said : 		#3

Hello

If you installed digikam using your distribution package, language files should be included with it and you can run digikam in any supported language.
You can change the default language by using KDE Control Center (kcontrol) :
Go to "Regional & Accessibility" and then in "Country/Region & Language" to use your default language.
Note, that will affects all your KDE applications.

You can also change the language used in digikam with the $LANG environment variable. Eg :

export LANG=de.UTF-8 ; digikam

If you compiled yourself digikam using the official tarballs, you can use digikam in any supported language. The language files are installed with digikam.
See above for details about how to use another language.

If you installed it from svn check:

http://www.digikam.org/?q=download/svn#homeinstall

Hope that helps

Bhavani Shankar.

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hjkrannig (hj-krannig) said : 		#4

Thanks Bhavani Shankar, that solved my question.