[SOLVED] Current language while installing application?

[Argolance]

Hello,
I created a pinstall.sh file that should be displayed in French or in English while installing my application:

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#!/bin/sh

# Toutou LINUX delete/replace obsolete scripts if present and create link from old to new script...

# set locale
LNG=$(echo $LANG|cut -d':' -f1)
LOCALE=$(echo $LNG|cut -d'_' -f1)

if [ $LOCALE != "fr" ];then

echo "English_text"
...
else
echo "French_text"
...
fi
exit 0

... This works quite well when pinstall.sh is launched for testing but doesn't while installing !

What's going wrong?

Regards.

[01micko]

Barry changes the $LANG environment variable when running petget.

I suppose you need a work around for that somehow..

The current variable for LANG is LANG=C (when petget is running), so you would need to override this.

Maybe this at top of your pinstall.sh: (note the dot)

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. /etc/profile

which should set all environment variables back to defaults.

Hopefully that would work.

A simple test is to put "xmessage $LANG" in your pinstall script, you will then see the output is "C".

[Argolance]

Hello,
Looking inside the /etc/profile file, I noticed these lines:

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#this line gets edited by chooselocale script...
#LANG=fr_FR.utf8 w004 going back to non-utf8...
LANG=fr_FR
export LANG
LC_ALL=fr_FR
export LC_ALL
LANGUAGE=fr_FR
export LANGUAGE

But are these lines present in all Puppy /etc/profile files?
I modified my pinstall.sh this way:

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# set locale
LNG=$(echo $LANGUAGE|cut -d':' -f1)
LOCALE=$(echo $LNG|cut -d'_' -f1)

... and this seems to solve the problem...
But is it enough or should I do exactly what you wrote?

Thank you.
Regards

[Argolance]

Maybe this at top of your pinstall.sh: (note the dot)

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. /etc/profile

which should set all environment variables back to defaults.

This seems to work well too...
I'll choose this one that is probably running for certain!

Regards!

[Argolance]

Found this too:

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# set locale (from simple localization for scripts by Shinobar based on MU).

for LNG in C $(echo $LANGUAGE|cut -d':' -f1) $LC_ALL $LANG;do :;done
LOCALE=$(echo $LNG|cut -d'_' -f1)

Regards.