Language pack sizes =================== langpack-o-matic has a script 'langpacksize' that helps to determine which packages fit on the CDs. You can download the latest version from http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-langpack/langpack-o-matic/main/view/head:/langpacksize This script prints a table of languages vs. categories and their single and cumulative sizes; by default, the numbers are bytes, but when being invoked with 'MB' as first argument, the numbers will be MB. E. g.: en G: 5.30 K: 5.55 G+K: 7.93 GSum: 5.30 KSum: 5.55 G+KSum: 7.93 es G: 3.57 K: 4.76 G+K: 6.16 GSum: 8.87 KSum: 10.32 G+KSum: 14.09 'G' is the size of base+gnome (as needed for Ubuntu CDs), 'K' is the size of base+kde (Kubuntu), 'G+K' is the size of base+gnome+kde (Edubuntu). In this context, 'base' means packages which are UI independent, such as coreutils, gcc, or hwdb-client. The 'Sum' field show the cumulative size of the packages for that language and all languages above it. The list is vertically ordered by the priority, i. e. they should be added from top to down. Language support on DVDs ======================== CDs are generally too small to ship a significant amount of language support packages (spell checkers, etc.), thus we only ship a subset for English there. On DVDs, you should use check-language-support (from the language-selector-common package) to compute the set of langauge support packages which you want to add to DVD ship ("dvd-langsupport") or the DVD live system ("dvd-live-langsupport"). Generate these with this command: for l in en es xh pt de fr; do echo "= Language support for $l ="; check-language-support --show-installed -l $l | xargs -n1 | sed 's/^/ * /'; echo; done > dvd-langsupport Update the list of languages accordingly.