[Pkg-privacy-maintainers] Bug#968556: torbrowser-launcher: Will not update with french locale

[Roger Shimizu]

On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 7:21 PM Olivier Berger
<olivier.berger at telecom-sudparis.eu> wrote:
>
> $ locale
> LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
> LANGUAGE=
> LC_CTYPE="fr_FR.UTF-8"
> LC_NUMERIC="fr_FR.UTF-8"
> LC_TIME="fr_FR.UTF-8"
> LC_COLLATE="fr_FR.UTF-8"
> LC_MONETARY="fr_FR.UTF-8"
> LC_MESSAGES="fr_FR.UTF-8"
> LC_PAPER="fr_FR.UTF-8"
> LC_NAME="fr_FR.UTF-8"
> LC_ADDRESS="fr_FR.UTF-8"
> LC_TELEPHONE="fr_FR.UTF-8"
> LC_MEASUREMENT="fr_FR.UTF-8"
> LC_IDENTIFICATION="fr_FR.UTF-8"
> LC_ALL=
> $ torbrowser-launcher
> Tor Browser Launcher
> Par Micah Lee, sous licence MIT
> version 0.3.2
> https://github.com/micahflee/torbrowser-launcher
> Votre version du Navigateur Tor est obsolète. Téléchargement de la nouvelle version.
> Télécharger à travers Tor
> Téléchargement https://aus1.torproject.org/torbrowser/update_3/release/Linux_x86_64-gcc3/x/en-US
>
> Which terminates immediately without doing anything else... not starting
> torbrowser :-/

I think it's related to #753173 [1], if not a duplicated one.

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/753173
I tested in my side, and it worked well.

$ LC_MESSAGES=fr_FR.UTF-8 torbrowser-launcher --settings

Above command can download FR version of TBB without problem.
So if you meet problems, I guess it's because of the locale settings.

Please confirm you already installed fr_FR.UTF-8 locale correctly:

$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales

Then confirm you have checked fr_FR.UTF-8 item, and then the locales
are correctly generated.
After that you can try to launch TBB again.

Cheers,
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Roger Shimizu, GMT +9 Tokyo
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