Change the locale/language of apt-get/aptitude

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I have a Debian system on which aptitude produces German messages although I set the default locale to en_US.utf8. Is there a way to change that? I would prefer English messages.

Andre

James Curbo · Answer 1 · 2009-10-04T14:43:31.720

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You can try re-configuring the locales package, which should ask you to set your system locale.

dpkg-reconfigure locales

You can also run aptitude with a specific locale, for troubleshooting.

LANG=en_US.UTF-8 aptitude

edited Oct 04 '09 at 14:43

answered Oct 03 '09 at 19:37

James Curbo

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You probably mean dpkg-reconfigure, don't you? – Andre Oct 03 '09 at 20:15
Indeed. Going to edit it now. – James Curbo Oct 04 '09 at 14:43

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 03 '09 at 20:16

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Starting a new shell did the trick.

answered Oct 03 '09 at 20:16

Andre

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