Pet packages for Chinese localization for Puppy Linux 4.00

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nyu · #1 Post by **nyu** » Thu 10 Jul 2008, 13:15

Hi ALL,

I just uploaded three PET packages for Chinese localization and input methods for
Puppy 4.00. They are:

zh_e-4.00.pet ------- to setup Chinese localization
scim-1.4.7-i486-5.pet ------ main Scim program
scim-tables-0.5.7-i486.pet ----- Various Chinese input methods

Download from here:
http://dotpups.de/puppy4/dotpups/Localization/Chinese/
mirror:
http://puppyfiles.ca/dotpupsde/puppy4/d ... n/Chinese/

You need to install some Chinese Unicode font as well. I am not going to explain it here.
Please search the Forum for information.

Once you have installed these packages in your Puppy system, please do the followings:
1. Use your editor to open "/root/.xinitrc" file, and remove the comment, e.g. #, at the
beginning of the following lines:
#export XMODIFIERS="@im=SCIM"
#export GTK_IM_MODULE=scim
#scim -d

2. Save the file.

3. Go to "Menu ---> Desktop ---> Chooselocale country localization", then select "local".
You'll see a new window. There are three additional radio buttons for you to
choose. They are en_US.UTF-8, zh_CN.UTF-8 and zh_TW.UTF-8. Please choose one
of them.

4. After you click "OK", X will restart.

5. Now, open "Leafpad" or Abiword in the Menu and choose your installed Chinese font.

6. Hit "Ctl+Space", and you'll see SCIM popup window. Choose your favorite input
method and start typing.

That\s it. Have fun!

P.S. If you have any question, please post.

cecc · #2 Post by **cecc** » Sat 12 Jul 2008, 04:51

Hi nyu,

that's great, thank you very much.

I'll suggest our forum members test it.

regards,

cecc

nyu · #3 Post by **nyu** » Sat 12 Jul 2008, 07:07

Hi cecc,

You are welcome!

labrador · #4 Post by **labrador** » Sat 12 Jul 2008, 17:21

Check out the Chinese localization package I made.
http://puppy.cnbits.com/sites/default/f ... ck-0.6.pet

The install process is same as ordinary .pet package. After restarting the X server, you will get what the following image shows.

There's another package, called chinese_pack_extra, providing more Chinese input methods and scalable fonts. It can be found on http://puppy.cnbits.com(it's in Chinese). You can also find technical detail about these packages on that site.

cecc · #5 Post by **cecc** » Sat 12 Jul 2008, 20:10

hi nyu,

The Chinese localization and SCIM input packages work well on my Puppy, except I didn't find the scim-pinyin in the SCIM tray.

Since I'm the smart pinyin user I searched for scim-pinyin from web, and this may be useful:

http://packages.ubuntu.com/zh-cn/hardy/ ... n/download

thank you, nyu.

regards,

cecc

nyu · #6 Post by **nyu** » Sun 13 Jul 2008, 08:26

cecc wrote:hi nyu,

The Chinese localization and SCIM input packages work well on my Puppy, except I didn't find the scim-pinyin in the SCIM tray.

Since I'm the smart pinyin user I searched for scim-pinyin from web, and this may be useful:

http://packages.ubuntu.com/zh-cn/hardy/ ... n/download

thank you, nyu.

regards,

cecc

That's good news. Since I don't use pinyin, I didn't include the package.
If there is a demand, maybe I'll make a pet package. I guess people can
download the Deb package from the link you mentioned as well.

Thanks for testing.

nyu · #7 Post by **nyu** » Mon 14 Jul 2008, 03:58

labrador wrote:Check out the Chinese localization package I made.
http://puppy.cnbits.com/sites/default/f ... ck-0.6.pet

It is nice. You are using fcitx as your Chinese input method. I am using
scim. fcitx is smaller in size and is very popular in PRC. My set up is
more suitable for both PRC and Taiwan.

woodys · #8 Post by **woodys** » Tue 15 Jul 2008, 19:50

Hi nyu,

First of all, thank you for making these Chinese pet packages. I would
be even more grateful if you could just go ahead and make the
scim-pinyin package because I will need it. Scim-pinyin is the only
Chinese input method that I'm familiar with, and I have tried the ubuntu
package, but it does not work well. I have not been able to upgrade my
puppy since 2.17 because of the lack of scim-pinyin.

Thanks again for your help.

Aitch · #9 Post by **Aitch** » Tue 15 Jul 2008, 20:20

Hi woodys, nyu

see Irihapeti's post May 23rd

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 32b36545b5

My reason for pursuing the scim-bridge route is that it's localisation-independent. My son's girlfriend, who is Chinese, can send emails in Mandarin without my having to change the localisation language. I installed scim-pinyin made pinyin input available through scim-bridge.

maybe pm her for info

Aitch

nyu · #10 Post by **nyu** » Wed 16 Jul 2008, 16:33

woodys wrote:Hi nyu,

First of all, thank you for making these Chinese pet packages. I would
be even more grateful if you could just go ahead and make the
scim-pinyin package because I will need it. Scim-pinyin is the only
Chinese input method that I'm familiar with, and I have tried the ubuntu
package, but it does not work well. I have not been able to upgrade my
puppy since 2.17 because of the lack of scim-pinyin.

Thanks again for your help.

I'll make the scim-pinyin pet package and upload it to the server.

nyu · #11 Post by **nyu** » Wed 16 Jul 2008, 16:35

Aitch wrote:Hi woodys, nyu

see Irihapeti's post May 23rd

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 32b36545b5

My reason for pursuing the scim-bridge route is that it's localisation-independent. My son's girlfriend, who is Chinese, can send emails in Mandarin without my having to change the localisation language. I installed scim-pinyin made pinyin input available through scim-bridge.
maybe pm her for info

Aitch

Actually, I don't know much about scim-bridge. I need to learn more about it.

woodys · #12 Post by **woodys** » Thu 17 Jul 2008, 01:25

Hi nyu,

I appreciate very much your help. But after further trying out puppy
4.0, I think it's not worthwhile for me to upgrade for the following
reasons:

1. It's slower than puppy 2.17.
2. I cannot upgrade seamonkey because of segmentation fault.
3. The encryption password is shown when I key in.

So please do not take the trouble to make the scim-pinyin package
especially for me. Your kindness is appreciated all the same.

May you be well and happy!

nyu · #13 Post by **nyu** » Thu 17 Jul 2008, 02:14

Hi woodys,

No problem. I made it to a pet package for Dingo already. MU will let me
know the final downloading location. Maybe some other people will use
the pet package

I installed Dingo in my old computer with 400MHz CPU and 256MB RAM.
The speed is very comfortable compared to other distributions. Your other
issues relate to software bug? I am sure this forum can give you hands
and resolve them quickly. Let's make a better puppy.

Cheers!
nyu

nyu · #14 Post by **nyu** » Thu 17 Jul 2008, 15:22

Hi ALL,

The "41 Language Internationalization" project member already made
the package. You can download it form the following site.

http://www.puppylinux.ca/members/Irihapeti/

enjoy!
nyu

nath2omt · #15 Post by **nath2omt** » Fri 18 Jul 2008, 13:52

You need to install some Chinese Unicode font as well. I am not going to explain it here. Please search the Forum for information.

Could someone please point to a link? Thanks much!

woodys · #16 Post by **woodys** » Fri 18 Jul 2008, 16:49

try http://downloads.sourceforge.net/wqy/wq ... 6-0.tar.gz

move wqy-zenhei.ttf to /usr/share/fonts/ttf/ or /root/.fonts/

and then type in a terminal: fc-cache -fv

done.

nath2omt · #17 Post by **nath2omt** » Sat 19 Jul 2008, 06:16

Thanks woodys. I can now read Chinese webpages.

toufu · #18 Post by **toufu** » Tue 25 Nov 2008, 02:48

http://www.puppylinux.ca/members/Irihapeti/
doesn't work. Does anyone have this pet file: http://www.puppylinux.ca/members/Irihap ... 1-i486.pet

Thanks.

Caneri · #19 Post by **Caneri** » Tue 25 Nov 2008, 03:25

Hi toufu,

My other server should be working again soon...we lost the raid controllers and the whole shebang went down...grrr

Anyway look here when it comes back up http://puppylinux.ca/members/Irihapeti

Sorry for the downtime,
Eric

toufu · #20 Post by **toufu** » Tue 25 Nov 2008, 18:41

It is quite annoying that the link is the only place I can find that has the pet file. All other sources point to the same temporarily dead location. No other alternative backups. I am wondering why not using some more reliable free storage websites, i.e. sourceforge, skydrive, google code, to host those small pet packages.

Thanks.

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