somehow mariodebian's solution didn't work for me what worked for me was
#2 to solve the problem sudo gedit /usr/share/libtranslate/services.xml then look for the lines containing <text-translation url="http://www.google.com/translate_t?text=${text:escape}&langpair=${from}|${to}&ie=utf8&oe=utf8"> <pre-marker text="<div id="/> <pre-marker text="result_box"/> <pre-marker text=">"/> <post-marker text="</div>"/> </text-translation> and replace them with <text-translation url="http://www.google.com/translate_t?text=${text:escape}&langpair=${from}|${to}&ie=utf8&oe=utf8"> <pre-marker text="id="/> <pre-marker text="result_box"/> <pre-marker text="mouseover"/> <pre-marker text=">"/> <post-marker text="<"/> </text-translation> save and restart gnome-translate -- Google service doesn't work in libtranslate https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/124287 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs