KiCAD 7: Can't set my preferred language

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Hello,
with KiCAD 7 I am unable so set my preferred language. I installed the kicad-doc-* package, but if i try to set my language it says it is not installed. Am i missing something or is this a bug?

Application: KiCad x86_64 on x86_64

Version: 7.0.0-da2b9df05c~165~ubuntu22.04.1, release build

Libraries:
	wxWidgets 3.2.1
	FreeType 2.11.1
	HarfBuzz 6.0.0
	FontConfig 2.13.1
	libcurl/7.81.0 OpenSSL/3.0.2 zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.0.9 zstd/1.4.8 libidn2/2.3.2 libpsl/0.21.0 (+libidn2/2.3.2) libssh/0.9.6/openssl/zlib nghttp2/1.43.0 librtmp/2.3 OpenLDAP/2.5.13

Platform: Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK, gnome, wayland

Build Info:
	Date: Feb 22 2023 09:43:42
	wxWidgets: 3.2.1 (wchar_t,wx containers) GTK+ 3.24
	Boost: 1.74.0
	OCC: 7.5.2
	Curl: 7.87.0
	ngspice: 38
	Compiler: GCC 11.3.0 with C++ ABI 1016

Build settings:
	KICAD_SPICE=ON
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for the same system I can confirm this here for the following installation method

sudo add-apt-repository --yes ppa:kicad/kicad-7.0-releases
sudo apt update
sudo apt install --install-recommends kicad

there is no directory /usr/share/kicad/internat/

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I’m not on Ubuntu but looking into the PPA I see the kicad-doc-<lang> packages are present:

https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/kicad/kicad-7.0-releases/ubuntu/pool/main/k/kicad-doc/

However, looking at my distro, this is the description of the kicad-doc-de package: German documentation and tutorials for KiCad

Whereas there is a kicad-lang-de package whose description is: German translations for KiCad

So maybe it’s the kicad-lang-<lang> package you should be installing.

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There is no kicad-lang-* package available for me

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Yeah, I don’t see them in the PPA. Maybe raise a ticket for the Ubuntu packages maintainer to build them?

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Just found the “problem”

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The same problem in Linux Mint 21.1

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If someone is in urgent need of the language, you can fix it with this command

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/kicad/share/kicad/internat/ /usr/share/kicad/internat
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Can you try Ubuntu 7.0 testing builds and see if it fixes the problem?

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Now it works OK in Linux Mint 21.1. Thanks.

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Ubuntu automatic software updater also solved the problem now automatically

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Current stable solved the problem

Application: KiCad x86_64 on x86_64
Version: 7.0.0-da2b9df05c~171~ubuntu22.04.1, release build
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