On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 12:40:15AM +0200, Vegard|drageV wrote: > On 7/17/05, Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 02:49:57PM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote: > > > On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 08:29:46PM +0200, Vegard|drageV wrote: > > > > I'm trying to install a program using apt-get, and I'm getting an > > > > errormessage wich I do not understand. At the moment the bash language > > > > is set to norwegian, and I wish to temporarily to set the language to > > > > english so I can post the errormessage here on the list. How do I do > > > > this? > > > > > > First let's get some terminology. The 'bash language' is > > > better known as the 'locale', which combines all of the > > > various language settings from a different geographic area: > > > the language, character encoding, etc. To change your > > > locale, run 'sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales'. > > > > > > However, you should be able to email us the contents of any > > > apt-get error message, just by pasting it into your email > > > client. That doesn't work for you? > > > > > > If you're using vim, you could also output the error message > > > directly into the editor within command mode like so: > > > > > > :r !apt-get [whatever you told apt-get to do] > > > > > > > I'm an English only person, so I have no experience with the > > extent of the localization of various packages in Debian, but > > is it possible that the error message that is troubling OP > > is coming out in Norwegian? If it is, the level of understanding > > of that message on this list will be somewhat limited. > > > > -- > > Paul E Condon > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > Sorry for not being clear of what is the problem... The errormessage > itself behaves correclty, but it is written in norwegian wich is not > understood by most debian-user readersm therefor I needed to get the > message in english to post it here. > > The hints I got worked, thanks for the help, > Hi V, IIUC, you can prefix one of the locale variables to a command to change them. this is my 'locale' info: LANG=en_US LC_CTYPE="en_US" LC_NUMERIC="en_US" LC_TIME="en_US" LC_COLLATE="en_US" LC_MONETARY="en_US" LC_MESSAGES="en_US" LC_PAPER="en_US" LC_NAME="en_US" LC_ADDRESS="en_US" LC_TELEPHONE="en_US" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US" LC_ALL=
So IIUC, doing this should make 'spanish' mesages:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/DOCUMENTS/IMAGES/DIA$ LC_MESSAGES="es_ES" ls ddd
ls: ddd: No existe el fichero o el directorio
So IIUC, doing this should make 'spanish' mesages:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/DOCUMENTS/IMAGES/DIA$ LC_MESSAGES="es_US" ls ddd
ls: ddd: No such file or directory
cheers,
Kev
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