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I have a Magento 2 shop hosted using a traditional cPanel hosting solution. Performance seems to be stable with the demo data and I'd like to install a language pack.

My problem is that I can only access a file manager, or run very simple commands by creating one-time cron jobs that execute a command ! and I have to manually delete them afterwards.

How can I install a language pack using these restrictions, since I do not believe I have composer installed ?

According to your requirements, you can create a translation module yourself manually.

1. 
   

   app/i18n/languageName/code_ISO/code_ISO.csv

   
   
   

   Example: for the French language it will be like this: app/i18n/french/fr_FR/fr_FR.csv

   
   
   
   
   
   • You put your translation words inside fr_FR.csvlike this :
   
   
   
   

   "Hello","Bonjour"

   
   
   
   
   
   • You can specify the translation for some module like this, example here is a captcha module
     "Incorrect CAPTCHA","CAPTCHA incorrect",module,Magento_Captcha

     
   
   
   
   


2. 
   

   app/i18n/languageName/code_ISO/language.xml

   
   
   

   <?xml version="1.0"?>
   
   <language xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:App/Language/package.xsd">
   
       <code>code_ISO</code>
   
       <vendor>languageName</vendor>
   
       <package>code_iso</package>
   
   </language>
   
   

   
   
   

   French language example:
   app/i18n/french/fr_FR/language.xml

   
   
   

   <?xml version="1.0"?>
   
   <language xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:App/Language/package.xsd">
   
       <code>fr_FR</code>
   
       <vendor>french</vendor>
   
       <package>fr_fr</package>
   
   </language>
   
   

   
   


3. 
   

   app/i18n/languageName/code_ISO/registration.php

   
   
   

   <?php
   
       MagentoFrameworkComponentComponentRegistrar::register(
   
       MagentoFrameworkComponentComponentRegistrar::LANGUAGE,
   
       'languageName_code_iso',
   
       __DIR__
   
   );
   
   

   
   
   

   French language example:
   app/i18n/french/fr_FR/registration.php

   
   
   

   <?php
   
       MagentoFrameworkComponentComponentRegistrar::register(
   
       MagentoFrameworkComponentComponentRegistrar::LANGUAGE,
   
       'french_fr_fr',
   
       __DIR__
   
       );
   
   

   
   


4. 
   

   Clean your cache, deploy the static-content like this :

   
   
   
   
   
   • Delete the contents of pub/static except .htaccess
     
   
   
   • Delete the contents of var/cache
     
   
   
   • Delete the contents of var/view_preprocessed
     
   
   
   • Run this command:
     php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy -f