Why Texts Are Not Translated

There are in total 8 language translations available in current playSMS.

They are:

• Catalan (Spain) ca_CA
• Deutsch (Deutschland) de_DE
• English (United States) en_US
• Spanish (Venezuela) es_VE
• French (France) fr_FR
• Indonesian (Indonesia) id_ID
• Portuguese (Brazil) pt_BR
• Russian (Russia) ru_RU
• Chinese (China) zh_CN

When user or admin activate one of them, sometime they saw changes on displayed text, but on some language no changes made. I\’ve seen questions like this asked by playSMS users.

These are steps a Linux admin need to take to enable multi-language support in playSMS:

$ sudo su -

# apt-get install language-pack-id language-pack-de language-pack-ca language-pack-es language-pack-pt language-pack-fr language-pack-zh-hant language-pack-ru

# /etc/init.d/apache restart

Explanation:

1. I use Ubuntu. I became root (or you can login as root if that possible)
2. I installed language-pack-xx files
3. I restart web server

That\’s it. By now your playSMS should be multi-language.

QA here.