If that were universally true me and Dominique should have missing translations too. My locale is LANG=nb_NO.utf8 yet all my translations for GNOME sits in /usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-boxes.mo and are working just fine. and I have "nothing" in '/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES' folder. Yet I get the full french translation when starting apps with LANG=fr_FR in front. I suspect this is something the installer is not doing correctly when using the dvd vs net-installer. Doing testinstalls in a VM the 2 different ways would be good, but I just can't be asked to do that on a sunday :-) --- The problem/task at hand is finding what "system variable" is different. Last hunch I can come up with: what does grep RC_LANG /etc/sysconfig/language output on your box