Re: How to change language from German to English
On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 02:57:37PM +0200, Lukas Ruf wrote:
> recently, I installed for a friend a Debian Woody in German. However,
> he was not convinced of Linux and gave me the disk back. Since I
> configured everything already, I would like to keep the installation
> but just switch the whole language to English, e.g.
> make foo should report
> make: *** No rule to make target `foo'. Stop.
> instead of
> make: *** Keine Regel, um "foo" zu erstellen. Schluss.
>
> Is there a way to easily set the language from German to English
> (including all man pages etc.)?
Set LC_MESSAGES=C in your environment.
> Do I have to re-install parts (which?) or the whole Woody?
Certainly not!
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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