An issue in my language

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- April 11, 2026 at 3:42 pm #29512
  newmbk0
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  Hi
  
  I recently installed the latest version of openmamba distro , my language (Arabic) showed correctly with no problems but after update the whole system, my language returned to English . I checked where is the problem and find out that the locale files (/usr/share/locale/ar) of Arabic language not found in the system after update , can you fix this please?!
  
  Thanks
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- April 11, 2026 at 8:08 pm #29514
  Silvan
  Keymaster
  Hi,
  please let me understand the flow.
  You started the live O.S. from the latest livecd or livedvd ISO? Then you run the calamares installer, selected Arabic language and installed. Then the system was in Arabic since first boot into the installed system? Next you updated the system and lost the Arabic language?
  There are no relevant updates in the last days which might cause the problem of removing a configured language, unless what you report is instead a problem with Plasma desktop, which has been updated very recently.
  What is the output of:
```
grep -v "^#" /etc/locale.gen
cat /etc/locale.conf
```
  System locale is configured in /etc/locale.gen and compiled with sudo locale-gen and this should have been done at installion time.
  
  This said, what exactly happened here is not clear, maybe I can reproduce it by repeating your installation flow but I first try to retrieve some more information as described above because the option of trying to reproduce it myself requires more time.
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- April 12, 2026 at 12:53 am #29518
  
  newmbk0
  Participant
  
  Thanks for quick reply
  
  Yes you’re right the system in first boot after install was in Arabic but after update with (sudo dnf update) and reboot it turned to English. I started OS from LiveDVD Plasma ISO
  
  output of grep -v “^#” /etc/locale.gen is:
  
  ar_AE.UTF-8 UTF-8
  ar_BH.UTF-8 UTF-8
  ar_DZ.UTF-8 UTF-8
  ar_EG.UTF-8 UTF-8
  ar_IN UTF-8
  ar_IQ.UTF-8 UTF-8
  ar_JO.UTF-8 UTF-8
  ar_KW.UTF-8 UTF-8
  ar_LB.UTF-8 UTF-8
  ar_LY.UTF-8 UTF-8
  ar_MA.UTF-8 UTF-8
  ar_OM.UTF-8 UTF-8
  ar_QA.UTF-8 UTF-8
  ar_SA.UTF-8 UTF-8
  ar_SD.UTF-8 UTF-8
  ar_SS UTF-8
  ar_SY.UTF-8 UTF-8
  ar_TN.UTF-8 UTF-8
  ar_YE.UTF-8 UTF-8
  en_AG UTF-8
  en_AU.UTF-8 UTF-8
  en_BW.UTF-8 UTF-8
  en_CA.UTF-8 UTF-8
  en_DK.UTF-8 UTF-8
  en_GB.UTF-8 UTF-8
  en_HK.UTF-8 UTF-8
  en_IE.UTF-8 UTF-8
  en_IL UTF-8
  en_IN UTF-8
  en_NG UTF-8
  en_NZ.UTF-8 UTF-8
  en_PH.UTF-8 UTF-8
  en_SC.UTF-8 UTF-8
  en_SE.UTF-8 UTF-8
  en_SG.UTF-8 UTF-8
  en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
  en_ZA.UTF-8 UTF-8
  en_ZM UTF-8
  en_ZW.UTF-8 UTF-8
  
  ar_DZ.UTF-8 UTF-8
  
  and for cat /etc/locale.conf is:
  
  LANG=ar_DZ.UTF-8
  LC_ADDRESS=ar_DZ.UTF-8
  LC_IDENTIFICATION=ar_DZ.UTF-8
  LC_MEASUREMENT=ar_DZ.UTF-8
  LC_MONETARY=ar_DZ.UTF-8
  LC_NAME=ar_DZ.UTF-8
  LC_NUMERIC=ar_DZ.UTF-8
  LC_PAPER=ar_DZ.UTF-8
  LC_TELEPHONE=ar_DZ.UTF-8
  LC_TIME=ar_DZ.UTF-8
- April 12, 2026 at 11:15 am #29519
  
  Silvan
  Keymaster
  
  Thanks for the information. Can you also post the output of:
  locale -a
  
  and if ar_DZ.UTF-8 is in the output, see if issuing the following command fixes the problem:
  sudo locale-gen
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