Writing in Arabic on Ubuntu

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This is the first message to Ubuntu Egypt group, It is about writing in
Arabic language on Ubuntu.
To write Arabic on Ubuntu, first make sure that you have Arabic
Language Pack (use Synaptic Package Manager to find "language-pack-ar",
and "language-pack-ar-base") I also have "ttf-arabeyes" and
"libfribidi0" installed here. By the way there is a package called
"language-support-ar" that I think it includes all of the above stuff.
Then go to System->Preferences->Keyboard and from the "Layouts" tab add
the "Arabi/qwerty" layout. Now right click on an empty area in the
"Panel" (The bar at the bottom of your screen) and choose "Add to
Pannel" and add the "Keyboard Indicator" and here you go.
Source:
http://gr33ndata.blogspot.com/2006/01/writing-arabic-on-ubuntu.html