How to change the Site Language in Joomla 2.5

Written by Brad Markle
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Published: Mar 5, 2012

By default, Joomla 2.5 comes with the English language pack installed. If your site is not intended for English speaking users, then you can change the language that Joomla uses. When you change the language in Joomla, predefined words and descriptions, such as "Login" and  "You are here", will be converted to the language of your choice. In this article, we'll show you how to download and install a new Joomla 2.5 language pack.

To change the language in Joomla 2.5

  1. Visit the Joomla Translation Packs page and download the language pack of your choice.
    click-download-for-your-language-pack
    Find the language of your choice and click the link next to Download Language Packs
    download-a-new-joomla2.5-language-pack
    Next to the "Joomla 2.5" version of the language pack, click to download the .zip version
  2. Log into your Joomla Dashboard
  3. In the top menu, hover over Extensions and click Extension Manager
  4. Use the Upload Package File tool to find the language pack you previously downloaded to your computer, and then click Upload & Install
    upload-your-language-pack
  5. In the top menu, hover over Extensions and click Language Manager
  6. If the Installed - Site tab is not highlighted, click the link to navigate to that tab. Under the Default heading, click the star icon next to the language you would like to use on your site
    click-the-star-for-your-language
  7. Your Joomla 2.5 site language has now been changed.
    English version of site Spanish version of site
    english-version-of-joomla spanish-version-of-joomla
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203: Working with languages in Joomla 2.5
talora 2012-07-24 2:59 pm
For users experiencing the "Warning: Failed to move file!" error while trying to install a package on Joomla! 2.5:

I've installed Joomla on the directory used by Apache by default on CentOS (/var/www/html). In my case, doing the following was enough to allow me to install a package (at least it allowed me to install Brazilian Portuguese language pack):

cd /var/www/html
chown apache:root tmp
chown apache:root language
chown apache:root tmp
chown apache:root administrator/language
chown apache:root administrator/manifests/packages

That was it. Hope it helps.

Regards,

Luís Talora

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