Re: Anybody here know what a rock64 is?
On Friday 20 April 2018 07:36:53 Alan Corey wrote:
> So, you can't just bring up raspi-config? It's just a script anyway.
> The locale section:
>
raspi.config is pi-3b specific. For starters the pi is armhf, the rock64
is arm64, a whole new rig 50x faster than any pi. It would take around 3
days to build the pi's kernel on the pi. It can be done in something
less than an hour on the rock64.
> do_change_locale() {
> if [ "$INTERACTIVE" = True ]; then
> dpkg-reconfigure locales
> else
> local LOCALE="$1"
> if ! LOCALE_LINE="$(grep "^$LOCALE " /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED)";
> then return 1
> fi
> local ENCODING="$(echo $LOCALE_LINE | cut -f2 -d " ")"
> echo "$LOCALE $ENCODING" > /etc/locale.gen
> sed -i "s/^\s*LANG=\S*/LANG=$LOCALE/" /etc/default/locale
> dpkg-reconfigure -f noninteractive locales
> fi
> }
>
> locale is a command and a man page on its own but I think it just
> reads. On this pi at the moment it says
>
> LANG=en_US
> LANGUAGE=
> 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=
>
> dpkg-reconfigure locales is the way to fix it under Debian probably,
> files live in /usr/share/i18n/locales
>
> On 4/20/18, Punit Agrawal <punitagrawal@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 3:29 AM, Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net>
wrote:
> >> I just did an update on it, running stretch, 70 files updated, and
> >> now the locale is trashed.
> >>
> >> Running xfce for an x11 gui, and the desktop clock/calendar, while
> >> using an EN_US-UTF8 font, is not in english, making orage a bit
> >> useless.
> >>
> >> Ideas how to fix it when there apparently is not an update.locale
> >> file to be found.
> >
> > For my locale related trouble, I normally run "sudo dpkg-reconfigure
> > locales".
> >
> > That's the extent of locale related knowledge. :)
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