Quoting the official Webalizer website:
The Webalizer is a fast, free web server log file analysis program. It produces highly detailed, easily configurable usage reports in HTML format, for viewing with a standard web browser.
By default, the reports generated by Webalizer are in English, and there is no way to change this after it is installed. This is because the language files are statically linked in it’s source code, therefore you need to recompile it if you want to change it’s language.
However, if you installed Webalizer from an RPM package, it’s lame to just recompile it and copy the webalizer binary (if you use Plesk, it is what Parallels suggests) since it would break package verification with rpm -V webalizer. Wouldn’t it be better if your RPM package already provided the software in the desired state? Let’s see how this could be done…
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