QA:Langpack Yum Application

Description

This test case tests whether langpack can add different languages to language list when changing current locale.

Setup

Follow up to the steps in QA:Testcase change language to switch the language if it's not what you expected to test.

How to test

• Check if your system has yum-langpacks plugin installed by executing:

rpm -q yum-langpacks

• If the package is not installed install it using yum:

  yum install yum-langpacks

• There are two different ways of testing.

A] Following steps are to test langpacks yum plugin by installing individual packages

1. Prior to run yum command, check if current locale is same to what you want to install for langpack.

   locale

2. Install several packages such as kde-desktop, koffice or eclipse etc and check if current language package of installed application is searched and installed automatically. For example:

   yum install eclipse

   yum install calligra

   yum install 'libreoffice'

   yum groupinstall 'kde-desktop'

3. Logout. In GDM, before entering password, change desktop language to another and login again.
4. Execute su to root user and exercise yum again by installing or updating several packages. Check if langpack plugged in yum is affected by the changing of current locale.

B] Following steps are to test langpacks yum plugin by adding/removing language support

1) To list the already installed language support, run the following command

yum langlist

2) To check if any language support is available for your language, run the following command

yum langavailable <locale_code> / <languagename> 

3) To list what packages will get installed for any language, run the following command

yum langinfo <locale_code> / <languagename> 

4) To add new language support, run the following command

yum langinstall <locale_code> / <languagename> 

5) To remove installed language support, run the following command

yum langremove <locale_code> / <languagename> 

Changing language does not affect up-to-date applications
If you change your current language, yum will download relevant language packs only for newly installed or updated packages. If the application is already up-to-date, changing your language won't download new language packs - that's expected.

Expected Results

A] For testing langpacks yum plugin by installing individual packages

1) When executing yum command, Langpack plugin should be loaded. e.g. yum will show message like

Loaded plugins: langpacks

2) Current locale package for the newly installed application should be installed automatically. e.g. for French language running desktop

yum install calligra

will pick calligra-l10n-fr automatically but not any other language translation packages.

B] For testing langpacks yum plugin by adding/removing language support

You can either use locale code or language name for yum langpacks commands.

1) To add French language support, first check if its support is available

yum langavailable fr

If you see output as

fr is available

then you can install French language support using command

yum langinstall fr

you will also see yum will show following message when transaction finishes

Language packs installed for: fr

2) To list what packages will get installed for French language, run following command

yum langinfo fr

you will see output like

Loaded plugins: langpacks, refresh-packagekit
  Language-Id=fr
  hunspell-fr
  libreoffice-langpack-fr
  autocorr-fr
  hyphen-fr
  man-pages-fr
  kde-l10n-French
  mythes-fr

3) To remove installed French language support run following command

yum langremove fr

you will also see yum will show following message when transaction finishes

Language packs removed for: fr

Reference Bugs

Bug 681747 langpacks not pulled in by groupinstall kde-desktop or office