QA:Langpack Yum Application

Description

This test case tests whether langpack can install available language translations for your current locale.

Setup

• 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

How to test

• 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. you can choose any of following packages to be installed freshly (if not already installed) and check if the current language translations of that package is searched and installed automatically. For example:

   yum install eclipse-platform

   yum install calligra-core

   yum install libreoffice-core

   yum install gnome-getting-started-docs

   yum install gimp-help

   yum install man-pages

   yum install gcompris

B] Following steps are to test langpacks yum plugin by using yum commands

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 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