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type="topic" style="task"
id="prefs-language-install">
<info>
<link type="guide" xref="addremove" group="#last"/>
<link type="seealso" xref="prefs-language"/>
<desc>Install more translations and related language support packages.</desc>
<revision version="17.10" date="2017-09-25" status="review"/>
<credit type="author">
<name>Gunnar Hjalmarsson</name>
<email>gunnarhj@ubuntu.com</email>
</credit>
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</info>
<title>Install languages</title>
<p>When you install Ubuntu, the language you select at installation gets
installed together with English, but you can add further languages.</p>
<steps>
<item>
<p>Open the <gui xref="shell-introduction#activities">Activities</gui> overview and
start typing <gui>Region & Language</gui>.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Click on <gui>Region & Language</gui> to open the panel.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Click the <gui>Manage Installed Languages</gui> button to open <gui>Language
Support</gui>.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Click <gui>Install / Remove Languages...</gui>. The
<gui>Installed Languages</gui> window lists all the available
languages, with the currently installed languages checked.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Check the languages you want to install, and uncheck those
currently installed languages you want to remove.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Click <gui>Apply Changes</gui>.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p><link xref="user-admin-explain">Administrative privileges</link>
are required. Enter your password, or the password for the requested
administrator account.</p>
</item>
</steps>
<p>In addition to the translations used to display menus and messages,
with a new language may follow various language support components such
as dictionaries for spell checking, fonts and input methods.</p>
<note>
<p>Some translations may be incomplete, and certain applications may
not support your language at all.</p>
</note>
</page>
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