Evolution german translation

[Eule]

Moin!

After I installed Mint 16 i noticed that the email client evolution appears not in german language. I've installed the all language packs, but the result is the same. Some other seems to have the same problem (comment #375):

http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2477#comments

How can I either fix this issue or bring it to speak to me in german with a work around?

[Wolfgang_K]

I'm experiencing the same bug: I installed every package that includes "-de" in its name, but still Evolution's GUI doesn't talk German to me.

I can't really believe that there's no solution to this problem.

[dudo1985]

same here with italian translation

[Wolfgang_K]

The most disappointing fact about this is the lack of answers to this issue.

Doesn't anyone know anything about it?

[K.S.]

There is old translation in language-pack-{LANG}-base (for Evolution v3.6) and you have Evolution 3.8. You can easily fix it yourself.

• 1.
  Download Evolution from here:
  https://download.gnome.org/sources/evol ... 8.4.tar.xz

• 2.
  Extract translation "{LANG}.po" for your language from "po" dir in archive

• 3.
  Convert .po file to .mo:

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  msgfmt -cv -o /path/to/evolution-3.8.mo /path/to/{LANG}.po

• 4.
  Copy evolution-3.8.mo to /usr/share/locale-langpack/{LANG}/LC_MESSAGES/evolution-3.8.mo

• 5.
  Restart Evolution, enjoy.

[lozanoje]

What about the evolution-data-server-3.8.mo file? Can we generate it as well from sources?

I solved it by creating symlinks from 3.6 version files, as described here:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... ug/1241109

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sudo ln -s evolution-3.6.mo evolution-3.8.mo
sudo ln -s evolution-data-server-3.6.mo evolution-data-server-3.8.mo

But I understand that it is way better to use the 3.8 files from sources rather than using the old 3.6 ones.

Edit: Pretty obvious solution: I've downloaded sources for evolution-data-sources:

https://download.gnome.org/sources/evol ... 8.5.tar.xz

Extracted, and used the same procedure for the po file to produce the right missing mo file.

[K.S.]

Why not, same way.

https://download.gnome.org/sources/evol ... 8.5.tar.xz

Symlinks work too but in sources you got more recent translation and for 3.8 version not 3.6.

[lozanoje]

Yes, I already did for data-sources as weel, works like a charm, thank you!

[Wolfgang_K]

K.S. and lozanoje: thanks to both of you for showing solutions!

Now I can use a German UI.

I had to use the symlinks, the other method doesn't work for me.

[lozanoje]

Well, a full how-to:

Important: replace {LANG} with your language, es for spanish, de for german, fr for french, and so on.

Install required tools, in case you dont already have it:

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sudo apt-get install wget xz-utils

Download, uncompress and convert the source file:

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wget "https://download.gnome.org/sources/evolution/3.8/evolution-3.8.4.tar.xz"
tar -Jxvf evolution-3.8.4.tar.xz evolution-3.8.4/po/{LANG}.po
msgfmt -cv -o ./evolution-3.8.mo ./evolution-3.8.4/po/{LANG}.po
rm -rf evolution-3.8.4

The same for the data-server data:

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wget "https://download.gnome.org/sources/evolution-data-server/3.8/evolution-data-server-3.8.5.tar.xz"
tar -Jxvf evolution-data-server-3.8.5.tar.xz evolution-data-server-3.8.5/po/{LANG}.po
msgfmt -cv -o ./evolution-data-server-3.8.mo ./evolution-data-server-3.8.5/po/{LANG}.po
rm -rf evolution-data-server-3.8.5

Copy 3.8 files to the right directory:

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sudo cp evolution-3.8.mo /usr/share/locale-langpack/{LANG}/LC_MESSAGES/
sudo cp evolution-data-server-3.8.mo /usr/share/locale-langpack/{LANG}/LC_MESSAGES/