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Re: How to change language in console?



On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 12:26:01PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> I'm now able to boot off the internal hard drive in single-user mode, 
> but when I do things such as "man interfaces", the text comes up in 
> German (I think). How do I change the language to American English? I 
> thought maybe it had something to do with locales, but I can't quite 
> wrap my head around how that works, and googling hasn't seemed to help 
> me any.

What does the 'locale' command print?

Locales are set in your environment. 'export LC_ALL=C' will probably do
what you want.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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