I just want to add some extra language files to X so I can view other languages. This was easily done in redhat, but I don't want to go back to fedora.

is there some packages that I can install?

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I'd hate to say this, especially since it may seem like i'm just trolling, but Dropline Gnome had support for all the languages i need (Chinese, Japanese, and Gaelic, including fonts and translations) out of the box.

The only thing i can suggest would be to find out what fonts provide the language support you need, or to install dropline.(IE, make sure you get chinese fonts to view chinese text, arabic fonts for arabic text) Google should be able to provide names for fonts that you'll need to download.


Once the fonts are downloaded, put the ttf files in /usr/X11/lib/fonts/TTF/

Once you do that, exit out of X and type (as root) fc-cache -fv and then restart X. you should be able to display those characters now.

I don't care how I get gnome, just that I have it so I'm going to try out dropline gnome.

thanks

If you are going to install dropline though, you're going to have to reinstall slackware since you can't install Dropline over Freerock, and i don't know how easy it will be to uninstall freerock.(probably easier to reinstall slackware)

Though i think dropline is the best gnome desktop i have ever used, it's not NECESSARY for you to display your fonts, you can install them in freerock. For example, if you need japanese fonts, just download kochi-substitute and then do a tar -xjvf kochi*.bz2 and then move the TTF files into /usr/X11/lib/fonts/TTF/. (Or if you need arabic fonts, or cryllic characters, or *insert language here* there is a probably a font for it). I find stealing the fonts from Ubuntu works well on my Arch box.(ubuntu has the best language support by FAR of any OS)

(just my disclaimer)