unziping a .tar.gz file in drupal folder (OS X)
Hello all
My first ever post. If this is not the right forum, please could I be redirected?
I have been juggling music and video with computers professionally for 25 years, but have no experience of programing of web based technology.
I have a site up and running - a certain amount of sighing and head scratching involved but it's there (http://labecedelauragais.com/) yes I am English, but I live in France.
I need to install french as the primary language for menus and navigation. The content is created in French.
I have hit the problem of unzipping the fr-6.x-1.0.tar.gz file in the drupal folder on the host server. I am using filezilla as an FTP program and can find no way of instigating the unzip process from there. The instructions on the drupal translation forum refer to using a shell program and command line instructions but I have not the first idea of how to start.
I would be very grateful for any help or hints
cheers
chris
ps I just read the instructions below the Body box - they are almost totally incomprehensible to me, so let's hope the post works. Maybe I should offer to start a "programing from the beginning for dummies/pensioners/non geeks" <<%**?page<>
Hello Chris, You don't really
Hello Chris,
You don't really need to upload the translation file(s) to your server, all you need to do is extract it on your harddisk and then import the translation through the backend. Follow this screencast from Lullabot for details on that:
http://www.lullabot.com/videocast/installing-drupal-translation
Thank you for your prompt
Thank you for your prompt reply. I watched the video a couple of times .
The first thing that I notice is that the situation in the video is not the same as mine . She is installing Drupal in a language other than English, I have mine already installed in English and need to add french. Having said that after watching the whole video it seems that the process for installing a second language should be pretty much the same.
The first of the three methods seems to unzip the contents onto the local computer, I need to put them in the appropriate files on my host server, I think? I did though learn a useful bit about merging the unzipped files with the root directory rather than letting the utility create a new folder.
The second method does the same thing on the local computer but could do it on the server if I had shell access. What is shell access to my server?
Third method. This seems to be what I need, but what is Cpannel - is it an FTP program like my Filezilla, would I be better getting this Cpannel and using that? I have put the file fr-6.x-1.0.tar.gz in the root folder on my host server using Filezilla but can find no way of unzipping it.
Sorry to be a pain, but would you explain very quickly what "import the translation through the back end " means so that I might understand a little more. I'm slightly embarrased by my lack of knowledge, but i have to learn somehow.
cheers
chris
chris
Hi Chris, You don't have to
Hi Chris,
You don't have to be embarrassed about anything here.
So let's try importing the language into your copy of Drupal using the backend. The first thing you need to do is enable the Locale module (navigate to admin/build/modules and select Locale and save).
Next, go to admin/settings/language and you'll see English there. Click Add Language, on the next screen choose French and click the Add Language button at the bottom.
Now after having extracted the translation files to your computer, navigate to admin/build/translate/import and click Browse to select your fr.po file. On the Import into field, choose French and hit Import at the bottom of the page.
I think this should cover it, if you can't get to one of the steps above it means I missed something... let me know if you need more help.
The first thing you need to
The first thing you need to do is enable the Locale module (navigate to admin/build/modules and select Locale and save).
mine was Administer/Site Building/Modules but I guessed it easily. I'm starting to realise that a sort of shorthand is used. Or maybe you use a different version - I am on 6.13 I think
Next, go to admin/settings/language and you'll see English there. Click Add Language, on the next screen choose French and click the Add Language button at the bottom.
This was harder. I could find neither settings nor language. I assumed that settings would be site configuration (maybe you are on a PC and OS X is different,) and searched every menu - no language. After a while I decided that it must be there, so why could I not see it. In my trawling through menus I remembered permissions, went there and enabled local, now I can see languages. So far so good.
The rest went pretty smoothly but, it says the import was successful 209 out of 746 strings translated (which doesn't seem many)
after a while it has gone to 209/932 - curious. It must augment the number as new untranslated strings are found.
Local is now ticked in the modules menu, but the tick box is greyed out.
I set French to the default language and something has happened as "Nom d'utilisateur " is demanded at login. Not much else is translated though, just what seem to be random bits of menu. I'm not expecting the content to be translated, just the interface for anonymous users. Maybe other files than the .po file need importing?
well some progress here - thanks again for your help.
Chris
chris
Shorthand
Hello Chris,
When we say something like admin/build/modules we mean that is the path you must navigate to.
For example, if you have Clean-URLs enabled:
http://labecedelauragais.com/admin/build/modules
If not, then it should be:
http://labecedelauragais.com/?q=admin/build/modules
I'll download the French translation and check it out, I'd expect French to be widely translated though. I get up to 99% of strings translated for Brazilian Portuguese.