Installing Malayalam on Mandriva Spring 2008 GNU/Linux
I tried installing Malayalam on Mandriva Spring 2008. It turned out to be easy.
Step 1 : Install Mandriva ;)
Step 2 : Log in and update your system from Menu->Tools->System Tools->Configure your Computer
Step 3 : From from Menu->Tools->System Tools->Configure your Computer choose 'install & Remove Software '
Step 4 : There are two drop down lists on the top left , choose 'All' in both .
Step 5: search for scim-tables-ml and select it
Step 6: Accept the dependencies. It will also ask you to choose from scim-, scim-bridge, and skim.I chose SKIM.
Step 7 : Click on Apply .
Step 8 : After software finishes installation, search for scim-qtimm Or scim-gtk and select it
Step 9 : Accept the dependencies , click on apply and wait for software install to complete.
Step 10 : Download and install latest Meera and Rachana from http://download.savannah.gnu
Step 11: open a console . become root user by typing 'su' (without quotes ) , and then typing in your admin password when prompted.
Step 12 : Run the following commands one by one
echo 'GTK_IM_MODULE=scim' >> /etc/sysconfig/i18n
echo 'XIM_PROGRAM="scim -d"' >> /etc/sysconfig/i18n
echo 'QT_IM_MODULE=scim' >> /etc/sysconfig/i18n
echo 'XMODIFIERS=@im=SCIM' >> /etc/sysconfig/i18n
Step 13: Reboot your system
Step 14: Log in . There should be a keyboard icon on the taskbar . You can click on it and choose your input method
Step 15: Send mails to friends and tell them that GNU is awesome.
Hitch number 1 : Firefox rendering is shit. libpango is v1.20 . How do i fix this ?
Hitch number 2 : Open office doesnt have ml language pack. :(
