On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 03:49:11PM -0400, Derek Martin wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I am installing a test machine, and I was able to install all of the
> locales on the machine manually by running dpkg-reconfigure locales on
> the machine, and selecting all the locales.
>
> This works, but the trouble is, I need to do this on a lot of
> machines, and doing it this way is very tedious and time-consuming.
> We have a lot of international users, and it's important that we be
> able to provide them the ability to use their native language, no
> matter what it may be.
>
> I'm using an automated install with the debian CD image and a preseed
> file, so ideally I'd like a way to do this automatically from the
> install. Failing that, a shell command which can run
> non-interactively to install every possible locale will suffice. Does
> such a beast exist?
Doesn't it work with preseeding? I'm just guessing here, I've never used
it.
http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2006/19/
This article appeared in DWN (http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2006/19/). Or
perhaps you can use an install image created with Instalinux (also featured
in DWN):
http://www.instalinux.com/
You can add a script to be executed just before ending installation, so that
should work...
HTH,
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