I recently changed to Ubuntu Studio, and the translator (into Spanish) doesn’t seem to work. It allows to mark the check box, but nothing happens at restart. It stays in English. Any ideas?
Is the system’s language Spanish?
To show the current setting; in a terminal window please run
locale
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You can also you try to run Ardour in that terminal forcing the language to Spanish in Spain:
LANG=es_ES.UTF-8 Ardour8
… or if you got Ardour from Ubuntu (not ardour.org), lower case a:
LANG=es_ES.UTF-8 ardour8
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Thank you for answering Robin.
Here is the command output for “locale”
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No existe el archivo o el directorio
LANG=es_ES.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=es_ES
LC_CTYPE=“es_ES.UTF-8”
LC_NUMERIC=es_ES.UTF-8
LC_TIME=es_ES.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE=“es_ES.UTF-8”
LC_MONETARY=es_MX.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES=“es_ES.UTF-8”
LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8
LC_NAME=es_MX.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=es_MX.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=es_MX.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=es_ES.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=es_ES.UTF-8
LC_ALL=
Everything seems to be in Spanish except “PAPER”. The first line however, indicates that the system can’t find the file or directory for LC_ALL. Could this be the problem?
Running Ardour with the command you suggest does start the application, but still in English.
By the way, thank you for offering the community those great plug-ins.
Are you sure Ubuntu Studio has installed the translation files for its version of Ardour?
Check if you have a /usr/share/ardour8/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES directory with a bunch of .mo files in it.
If not, you should to run sudo apt install ardour-data to install them.