hi,somemore little teething problems using sarge (my first real go with
linux)
my copy came with linuxformat mag(dvd) and has openoffice stuff bundled
with it problem is when I open a document with "writer" all looks fine
until I hover the mouse over any buttons or try menus...these are all in
russian as far as I can work out...does anyone know how to get english?
thanks, Steve

Hello

steve (<steve.f@spamukonline.co.uk>) wrote:

> hi,somemore little teething problems using sarge (my first real go
> with linux)
> my copy came with linuxformat mag(dvd) and has openoffice stuff
> bundled with it problem is when I open a document with "writer" all
> looks fine until I hover the mouse over any buttons or try
> menus...these are all in russian as far as I can work out...does
> anyone know how to get english? thanks, Steve

I don't know exactly how openoffice determines which language to use.
You should however do the following:

Install the locales package: apt-get install locales
If the package is already installed, reconfigure it:
dpkg-reconfigure locales

Select the locale you want, e.g. en_GB.ISO-8859-15.

In the next screen, select one of the locales you selected as the
default, or choose C. This will also default to english.

Log out and log in again.

Make sure the correct OpenOffice.org packages are installed. Remove all
openoffice-l10n-?? packages except for openoffice-l10n-en.
apt-get --purge remove openoffice-l10n-.* will show you all of them that
are installed and ask you to deinstall the packages. Select no and
rerun apt-get remove with the names of the l10n packages you don't
need. Restart OpenOffice.org.

If all of that doesn't help, move your ~/.openoffice directory out of
the way.

best regards
Andreas Janssen

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