apt-get install localeconf Marcelo Chiapparini wrote:
> Hi, > > after upgrading to woody from potato its seems that > I've lost the locale configuration. After installed > the language-dev package and running "dpkg-reconfigure locales", > choosing the "en_US.ISO8859-1" option, I got the message that > this locale was generated successfully. But the system insits in > ignoring them. The output from the locale command is still: > > LANG=english > LC_CTYPE= > LC_NUMERIC="english" > LC_TIME="english" > LC_COLLATE="english" > LC_MONETARY="english" > LC_MESSAGES="english" > LC_PAPER="english" > LC_NAME="english" > LC_ADDRESS="english" > LC_TELEPHONE="english" > LC_MEASUREMENT="english" > LC_IDENTIFICATION="english" > LC_ALL= > > instead of > > LANG=en_US.ISO8859-1 > LC_CTYPE="en_US.ISO8859-1" > LC_NUMERIC="en_US.ISO8859-1" > LC_TIME="en_US.ISO8859-1" > LC_COLLATE="en_US.ISO8859-1" > LC_MONETARY="en_US.ISO8859-1" > LC_MESSAGES="en_US.ISO8859-1" > and so on. > > I have another machine, with potato this time, > which has the above en_US.ISO08859-1 locale > settings. The file /etc/environment in this > machine has the only entry "LANG=C", so that, > I think that the file /etc/environment has nothing > to do with the locate settings. My question is, > how can I set the locale setting I want in the > first machine? > > I've followed the previous discussion in this > list regarding this problem, but no conclusive > solution was given... > > (BTW, the potato to woody upgrade doesn't upgrade > the locale package.) > > Thanks in advance > > Marcelo -- Simon Hepburn.