In "Re: [m17n] 8.2 PRO which language during install", Mike Fabian writes:
Doing the install in Japanese will automatically install a few Japanese related packages, for example the Japanese input software kinput2 and Canna and some Japanese fonts. But it is also very easy to add these later after the installation with YaST2.
That's good news. OK, how? A week ago, I installed SuSE 8.2 Personal successfully. Asked to specify language, I believe that I chose "English (UK)". Perhaps that was a mistake; if it was, I'd be happy to rectify it. But how? I am a total newbie in Linux and don't mind being told to RTFM. The SuSE 8.2 manual doesn't mention Japanese, Canna, kinput, input, IME, FEP, etc. (As I understand it, SuSE invites me to pay them 46 Euros to phone the question to them in Germany.) So I try YaST, or anyway its Control Center. "Install and remove software" sounds promising. This turns out to have a list of programs/modules, most of which are checked (meaning, I think, that I already have them installed), some of which (e.g. aspell, gedit2, gstreamer) aren't checked. (I don't know why these particular unchecked programs are listed. Are they what are on one of the three CDs? Are they thought to be particularly popular?) Anyway, Canna, kinput2 and the like don't seem to be anywhere among them. It also has "system update", which offers four choices -- : default system : minimum graphical system (without KDE) : minimum system : update installed packages only (no additional software will be installed) : clean up the system (delete unmaintained packages) -- none of which sounds helpful to me. I can already browse Japanese websites and view mail in Japanese, but (according to my minimal understanding of GNU/Linux) I don't have canna, kinput2, or any alternative installed. I did manage to find on the web and download tar.gz ("tarball"?) files of what seem to be the source for (i) canna 3.2, (ii) canna 3.5 beta, (iii) kinput2 3.1 not-obviously-beta and (iv) kinput 3.1 beta 4 -- but acquaintances who are familiar with Linux (but not SuSE) guess that installation should be via some simpler method. So what should I do? Please KISCIS (Keep it simple coz I'm stupid). Thank you!