Ethiopian Setup

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Development is being tracked here: http://www.codewiz.org/wiki/EthiopianLocale

  • Update your OS image if it's older than 571
  • Install the Amharic font locally:
cd /home/olpc
mkdir .fonts
cd .fonts
wget http://www.codewiz.org/pub/Abyssinica_SIL.ttf
fc-cache
  • Add the olpc-bernie yum repository:
cd /etc/yum.repos.d
wget http://www.codewiz.org/pub/olpc-bernie/olpc-bernie.repo
  • Install a few updates from olpc-bernie:
yum update glibc libX11 xkeyboard-config
  • Set the LANG environment variable in /etc/sysconfig/i18n
LANG=am_ET.UTF-8
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