How to install language pack for the entire site

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How to install language pack for the entire site

Post by caynada » Tue Apr 10, 2012 3:34 am

I am having an issue with setting up my multilingual site. I have downloaded and installed the two language packs I need, UK English and Spanish. However only one shows up in the language manager under the tab "installed - site" and the other shows up under "installed - administrator". Could this be the issue? Should they both be under "installed - site"?

I followed a great step by step tutorial by Peter Martin called Multi language Joomla site without 3rd party extensions.

But unfortunately only the UK flag shows up under the language switcher on my home page, no Spanish flag...

Here are some screen shots to illustrate what I am referring to:

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And here is where the Spanish package is appearing:

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Any help would be greatly appreciated.

thanks!

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Re: How to install language pack for the entire site

Post by imanickam » Tue Apr 10, 2012 4:03 am

Download the Spanish language pack from http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/jtrans ... ge_id=5597 and install it.

Without the Site language installed you cannot expect the flag to appear. Also, make sure you have contents in Spanish too.

Review of the tutorial-cum-demo site http://multilingual-joomla-demo.cloudac ... steps.html would be of help. You could also log into this site's back-end to see how things are configured.
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Re: How to install language pack for the entire site

Post by infograf768 » Tue Apr 10, 2012 7:12 am

Uninstall the en-US and es-ES packs existing, thse are 1.5.15 packs and will not work with 2.5.x

Update to 2.5.4.
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Re: How to install language pack for the entire site

Post by caynada » Wed Apr 11, 2012 2:22 am

Thank you both. I will try both your suggestions.

Cheers


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