Re: set language in bash

[Wim De Smet <kromagg@gmail.com>]

On 7/17/05, Vegard|drageV <vegardlr@gmail.com> 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?
> 
> Using bash shell on sarge.
> 

If you make your root shell a login shell ("su -")you usually get an
environment without locales. In any other case: export LANG="en_US"
will probably work.

greets,
Wim