Sinhala packages for Ubuntu 7.04 (feisty) and installation instructions
are available on sinhala.sourceforge.net.
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Sinhala packages for Ubuntu 7.04 (feisty) and installation instructions
are available on sinhala.sourceforge.net.
/etc/environmentAdd to /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://sinhala.sourceforge.net/ubuntu/i386/edgy/ ./
apt-get update
apt-get install sinhala-gnu-linux
apt-get upgrade
Repositories are only provided for the most recent version of Ubuntu because we need to encourage users to test the most recent version. If you have any problems, questions or suggestions, please send an email to the appropriate mailing list.
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How to install
deb http://sinhala.sourceforge.net/debian/i386/dapper/ ./
apt-get update
apt-get install sinhala-gnu-linux
The 'sinhala' CVS module on the LKLUG webserver, containing patches and source code for adding Sinhala support to GNU/Linux, has officially been moved to Sourceforge. You can access the Sourceforge Sinhala project's CVS at:
NOTE: Eventually, the 'sinhala' CVS module on the LKLUG webserver will not be publicly accessible.
Please use the 'sinhala' CVS module on Sourceforge from now on. You can find the Sourceforge Sinhala project page at:
Red Hat is going to ship the LKLUG Sinhala true type font in the next version of their distributions.
The LKLUG Sinhala true type font can be downloaded from:
My partial Sinhala support patch to ICU 3.4 (used by Open Office 2):
has been added by Red Hat to recently released ICU RPM libraries. They can be downloaded from:
[download.fedora.redhat.com]
From the Redhat mail archive:
We are finally updating the sinhala.linux.lk website. Drupal is being deployed to manage the content.
So far I have found it quite intuitive, needed to first understand the menu and navigation system and then the content type.
The LKLUG members mailing list exploded as the discussion turned to Sinhala language support in GNU/Linux.