How to install language modules for the glossaries package

Question

I've updated to the latest version (v 4.12) of the glossaries package on a miktex installation under windows. Now I get two warnings from the glossaries package:

Package glossaries Warning: No language module detected for 'ngerman'. (glossaries) Language modules need to be installed separately. (glossaries) Please check on CTAN for a bundle called (glossaries) `glossaries-german' or similar.

Package glossaries Warning: No language module detected for 'english'. (glossaries) Language modules need to be installed separately. (glossaries) Please check on CTAN for a bundle called (glossaries) `glossaries-english' or similar.

I didn't find these language packages in the miktex package manager so I tried to install them manually. I've created two folders within the miktex installation dir \Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex called glossaries-english and glossaries-german and put the *.dtx and *.ins files of the appropriate languages into these folders. After that I refreshed the FNDB and updated the formats under the miktex options on the General tab.

However, the warnings are still there. Any further ideas what to do?

Answer 1

First, make sure you have installed the appropriate language packages for glossaries. For English it is glossaries-english. If the warning is still present do as follows:

Change the current directory to TEXMF/tex/latex/glossaries-english/ and run

pdflatex glossaries-english.ins

Then change the current directory to TEXMF/tex/latex/glossaries-german/ and run

pdflatex glossaries-german.ins

If you then run pdflatex on the *.dtx files you will also get the documentation of these packages in .pdf format.

At this point the needed *.ldf and *.dict files have been generated, so if you want, you can also delete all other files in those directories (except for the *.pdf files if you want their documentation).

The last step is to refresh the file name database, otherwise these files won't be seen by LaTeX.