End users in the autonomous region of Rojava or West Kurdistan are requesting help with a Kurdish GNU/Linux for 3 reasons:

1) People don't speak English, nor are they good at computers. They shouldn't have to know how to install or configure Kurdish language support (which BTW involves installing 3 separate packages and a number of arcane steps).

2) Internet access is not readily available everywhere, so everything needed for a functional distribution should be included out of the box. All of the multimedia software.

3) The translations need to be completed. Often the translation files are changed between versions of software so we will need to build the latest releases of software, translate them and then include them in our custom distribution so that people can use localized software. The alternative is waiting 6 months or more when they become available for Ubuntu and that version of the software becomes available in the repos.

What is needed:

We couldn't find any official instructions for building Ubuntu or where it is based. ATM, we use this command:

xorriso -as mkisofs \

-isohybrid-mbr /usr/lib/syslinux/mbr/isohdpfx.bin \

-c isolinux/boot.cat \

-b isolinux/isolinux.bin \

-no-emul-boot \

-boot-load-size 4 \

-boot-info-table \

-eltorito-alt-boot \

-e boot/grub/efi.img \

-no-emul-boot \

-isohybrid-gpt-basdat \

-o /path/to/tmp.iso \

/path/to/tmp

Which is something we found on some random website and have no idea what it does.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InstallCDCustomization

These instructions above are out of date and no longer work.

That xorriso command works but it has problems- for instance the startup CD creator refuses to load the ISO and we have to use ddrescue.

Somebody is recommending Debian installer localization: https://d-i.alioth.debian.org/doc/i18n/. Do you have any advice?