Installing and Using KDE Bangla Translation

The Bengali language pack is distributed with KDE 3.2.1, so you may be able to obtain it from your distribution. But if that is not possible for some reason, you could download the translated source PO files package manually, from here and compile and install it using the usual ./configure; make; make install steps. To install it in your personal KDE directory instead of a system-wide installation, configure with ./configure --prefix=/home/<username>/.kde.

If you want to use more up-to-date translations (from the CVS, meant to go into the next release of KDE), installing them is very easy once you have KDE (3.2.x) installed. You can get the source package here (to be installed following the directions given above).

Alternatively, you can download and install pre-compiled message files (smaller and doesn't need the kdelibs development package). This is basically a zipped up copy of the ~/.kde/share/locale/bn folder from a working KDE installation, and is available here. The file should be unzipped in ~/.kde/share/locale

One way to install translations from this file is to execute the following shell commands.

$ cd
$ wget http://www.ankurbangla.org/projects/kde/bn.tar.gz
$ mkdir -p .kde/share/locale
$ cd .kde/share/locale
$ tar xvzf ~/bn.tar.gz

You can skip the wget step if you already have the latest version of bn.tar.gz in your home directory. If you do run wget, make sure you remove any old copy, because wget will rename the new copy and you may end up installing the older translations.

Note that these files are generated manually, and may not have been updated recently. If you want a more up-to-date copy than what is available now, just send us a mail and we'll generate a new version.

After you have installed the translations and restarted KDE, Bengali should be available in the Control Center's 'Regional & Accessibility' module. Select it and enjoy!

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