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Installing Drupal with a Translation

Drupal version: 6.x
Addison Berry
by Addison Berry
February 22, 2008

One of Drupal 6's nice new features allows you to install Drupal using a language other than English. This video will show you how to get a translation, extract it and run the installer with the new language. We will cover the extraction process using three methods (GUI unzip utility, command line and CPanel) because it is important to make sure it extracts properly for the installer to see it.

The video assumes you are already familiar with the basic installation process and only covers the translation part.

Important Note for the geekier people out there - DO NOT USE CVS. A CVS checkout of a translation will not work because the correct structure for the files is created during the tarball packaging process. I learned this the hard way. :-)

- There are other videos that show more of the multi-language features of Drupal 6. The packaging of installation translations has changed a bit since the end of January 2008 so I wanted to cover the new process for just this part.

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On February 23rd, 2008 Ben (not verified) said:

http://www.lullabot.com/files/i18nInstall.mp4
http://www.lullabot.com/node/330/download

:(

Darnit

On February 23rd, 2008 addi said:

Ugh, it worked fine for me last night. I tested it out before I published it but apparently something wonky happened. Should be fixed up now.

MP4...

On February 23rd, 2008 Mikkel Høgh (not verified) said:

Well, for whatever reason, I can't play this file, not even with VLC.

I wish I had a Mac...

What OS?

On February 23rd, 2008 addi said:

I can play it fine with both Totem and VLC on Ubuntu.

Also Ubuntu

On February 23rd, 2008 Mikkel Høgh (not verified) said:

I'm also on Ubuntu 7.10...

Hmm

On February 23rd, 2008 addi said:

Well I know that at some point I also installed a couple codecs for gstreamer (I believe when I first tried to use Totem to open some format it prompted me to go get the codecs I needed.) So I don't know if those are helping VLC work too. Do you have an ffmpeg codec/plugin?

Linux

On February 24th, 2008 Mikkel Høgh (not verified) said:

I have both FFMPEG and all the applicable plugins for GStreamer. I can watch all kinds of other formats - .mov, DivX, etc.

So probably it's just my computer that's hosed somehow. If I was willing to spend a couple of hours messing around, I'd probably be ably to find out why. Linux in a nutshell. :(

use MPlayer

On July 26th, 2009 Anonymous (not verified) said:

use MPlayer

Really??

On June 5th, 2009 Anonymous (not verified) said:

Why add the video in a format that a lot of people can't play?

The Internationalization page on Drupal references this page for how to install translations. Can we get a different version? YouTube embed? Something else?

Please? Thanks.

Yeah, download is broken

On February 23rd, 2008 Mikkel Høgh (not verified) said:

And playing Quicktime in the browser doesn't work for me.

Video Ipod Not Working....

On February 26th, 2008 Jp (not verified) said:

I downloaded the latest video podcast and it won't play on my ipod.... At least thats what I tunes is telling me. Any Ideas?

Thanks

Drupal with Yahoo Hosting

On March 3rd, 2008 Anonymous (not verified) said:

Just wanted to know if it is possible to use Drupal with Yahoo hosting services? If yes, what are the pros n cons and requirements for a successful install?

Thanks!!

Don't know Yahoo Hosting

On March 3rd, 2008 addi said:

I am not familiar with Yahoo hosting so I can't say if you can or what pros and cons would be. You need to check to see if it meets the system requirements for Drupal.

I think pros n cons of

On May 7th, 2008 Anonymous (not verified) said:

I think pros n cons of installing on yahoo are them same as for installing elsewhere

Could you please explain me

On May 8th, 2008 Kathryn H Rybicki (not verified) said:

Could you please explain me the meaning of 'CVS'

Version control

On May 8th, 2008 addi said:

CVS is the version control system that the Drupal project uses to store and track all of the code (for both core and contributions.) You can read more about Drupal's use of CVS in the handbook: http://drupal.org/handbook/cvs.

Lovely voice

On January 17th, 2009 Gabriel (not verified) said:

I love to listen to the tutorial, lovely voice... :)

The video assumes you are

On February 4th, 2009 mpcoc (not verified) said:

The video assumes you are already familiar with the basic installation process and only covers the translation part.

mpcocsearch

Does anyone know what 'Finder' add-on she's using on her Mac?

On February 17th, 2009 Peter (not verified) said:

Hello everybody,

I liked the video, but I also liked the 'add-on' for the Mac Os X finder she seems to be using on her computer. Anyone know what kind of plug-in/add-on/tool this is?

Best regards,
Peter

PathFinder

On February 17th, 2009 addi said:

Hi Peter, I use an app called PathFinder (http://www.cocoatech.com/) as a Finder replacement.

Thanks for your reply! This

On February 26th, 2009 Peter (not verified) said:

Thanks for your reply! This is really great software by the way, thanks.

Hi Addison, thank you for

On February 26th, 2009 Peter (not verified) said:

Hi Addison, thank you for your reply - I ckecked it out, and it's really great. Thanks again. And keep up the good work.

Best regards,
Peter

If you would use the command

On April 26th, 2009 Anonymous (not verified) said:

If you would use the command line, it would be easier and there wouldn't be any stupid weird behaviour like directories created or whatever mac junks...
Use the command line Luke!

I have problem translate my

On July 21st, 2009 chris (not verified) said:

I have problem translate my drupal site on spanish.Any sugesstions

Chris
Spanish Translation

Thanks

On August 14th, 2009 rix (not verified) said:

Thanks for posting this. Would be great if someone were able to put an alternative video up on youtube though - i also had problems with this format.

Really....Mp4?

On August 21st, 2009 Anonymous (not verified) said:

Why not post it in something that is easy to play. Embed video maybe?

Video changes

On August 21st, 2009 addi said:

Yeah, we aren't a big fan either. We're currently working on an upgrade for the site and changing how we do video is a big thing on the list (we are migrating away from the legacy of video module). I was actually working on this very task this morning. Definitely moving to embedded.

thanks alot

On September 29th, 2009 Anonymous (not verified) said:

thanks alot

I just think that it is cool

On November 2nd, 2009 Josh G. (not verified) said:

I just think that it is cool that we can install in our own languages finally. Thanks for the files.