the offical debian kde 3.1 debs are compiled with gcc 3.2 and the should be in sid end of this week/early next week..
Hello so far I'm really impressed with my knoppix hdd install. Way cool!
The only real gripe left with my system was the partial english/partial german problems with man pages and some console apps.
This fix will not fix KDE, OpenOffice, etc.
So I did some searching and found where the language variables are set, now I have my system running in english as I want it to.
The fix is easy as root edit (or if necessary make) the /etc/sysconfig/i18n file and use your country's info, here is my US-english file:
LANG="en_US"
COUNTRY="US"
LANG="en_US"
LANGUAGE="en"
CHARSET="iso8859-1"
XMODIFIERS=""
Thanks goes out to everyone here that is helping out with this great distro! I was thinking (dreaming) about Mandrake 9.0 because it is gcc 3.2 compiled, but I have something much better now, I have a "debian on the edge system" that ROCKS! Knoppix rules!
L8r,
rock
the offical debian kde 3.1 debs are compiled with gcc 3.2 and the should be in sid end of this week/early next week..
RockMumbles,
Good work. I have sent this info to Christian Perle who is the maintainer of the knx-hdinstall script. Perhaps it will enable him to provide more language options in his install scipt.
Even aftering editing the aforementioned file, I still get German when logging in with the Knoppix user (Logging in as root gave me a wizard where I was able to choose my desired locale/language). Hint to future followers of the thread, don't bother trying to edit that file without being logged in as root or other equivalent superuser.
-Darke
PS Knoppix does rule! The best thing about it is the autodection of hardware. A few years ago I remember trying to configure Redhat on my network at work. I gave up after about a week. Knoppix had me up in running in a little over an hour!
Check out this help file Install part (7)+ for setting up KDE for english:
http://www.freenet.org.nz/misc/knoppix-install.html
I also select the US (or your language) keyboard from the keyboard config applet next to the clock and then close it out.
In X (kde, fluxbox, icewm. xfce, etc.) things were working in english OK, but from a console things were part german, part english.
Also see Andrew Foster's post about home directories:
http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=297
I made a shell script from his code, I call it fix-home following is the code:
(Note: this code is all one line)
#!/bin/sh
for i in `grep -rlis \/home\/knoppix ~`; do perl -p -i -e "s/\/home\/knoppix/\/home\/$1/g" "$i"; done
you could cut the code from this page and paste it into an editor that does not word wrap, make sure the " for ... ... done " is all one line, and then as as root move it to /usr/local/bin, then made it executable by:
chmod 755 /usr/local/fix-home
You can run it as root by typing:
fix-home user-name
where user-name is the user-name for the user directory you want to fix. Or you can run it in a console logged in as the user.
HTH,
rock
I have a similar problem.
My keyboard is configured as a German Layout when I boot to shell. Under Kde I have no problems.
I don't have the " /etc/sysconfig/i18n " file the directory is empty.
Should I just create the file with the text listed in it ?
anushatech
I just now saw your post, I would make the i18n file from my first post. That would put your console keyboard in US-english.
HTH
rock
What are the correct settings for this file for UK English?
Q
What I would do is look in /usr/share /i18n/locales and compare the us entry en_US to the en_GB file, for starters it looks like:
LANG="en_GB"
COUNTRY="GB"
LANGUAGE="en"
edit
The /etc/sysconfig/i18n language entries will only fix console language problems. KDE, openoffice, etc. will have to be fixed separately.
/edit
HTH
rock
No I did that and it didn't work anyway... Surely there must be a way of making English your system wide setting? I'd love a debian based distro that is easy to install, but this language thing where half the applications I open are in german and my whole root directory/applications are in german too is really starting to get me down...
I do wish there was much better english suport from this distro...
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