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On Ubuntu, to add a locale to the system, I would edit /var/lib/locales/supported.d/local
, add the locale and then run dpkg-reconfigure locales
.
I tried that on a Debian 5.0, but I discovered that locales
wasn't installed, but instead I had belocs-locales-bin
and belocs-locale-data
. There was also a locales
package, not installed, that, when I tried to install was in conflict with belocs, so I refrained.
I found out that to reconfigure locales, I had to edit /etc/locale.gen
and run locale.gen
.
I was wondering what's the difference between the two systems, and why there are two systems?