• Plesk administer access. If you are currently using Power User mode, you will need to disable this to access your Server Administration Panel.

Instructions

Unlike previous versions, language packs are now included in the Plesk 10.x product and separate downloads are no longer needed.

1. Log into your Server Administration Panel, see Figure 1.

   
   Figure 1: Server Administration Panel

2. In the left navigation menu, under Server Management, click on Settings. See Figure 2 for the location.

   
   Figure 2.

3. Under Panel Appearance, click on Languages, see Figure 3.

   
   Figure 3..

4. On the next screen, 11 languages are available for your use. By default, German and English are enabled. You will need to first Disable one of these in order to check the box next the two languages you want to enable. See Figure 4.

   
   Figure 4..

Resources

• Plesk Administer's Guide: Setting Up Interface Languages

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Instructions

To install one of these language packs, you can follow these simple instructions:

1. Register at Parallels.com.

2. Visit the Parallels Download Page and locate the language pack of your choosing. Right click on the RPM file for the language desired, and copy the URL to your clipboard.

3. Connect via SSH to your (dv) as root and use wget to download the file to your server. In this example, we will download the German language pack:

wget http://download1.parallels.com/Plesk/Plesk8.6/Localization/psa-locale-de-DE-8.6-build86080805.15.noarch.rpm

4. Once it has completed downloading, use the command to install the package:

rpm -ivh psa-locale*.noarch.rpm

5. Log into your Plesk Control Panel. Go to Server and select License Management.

6. Examine the information on the page. You should see "Maximum number of language packs" and it should have the number 2 next to it. If it does not, click on "Retrieve Keys" and it should update to 2.

7. Go back to "Server" and click on "Interface Management." You should see en-US for English, as well as the additional language that you chose to install.

8. You can now set each client to use the additional language pack. Go to "Clients", click on your "Client Name" and select "Preferences." On this screen, you will see Interface language, which you can now set to be the additional locale that you installed.