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Changing from default env - LANG=de_DE@euro and LANGUAGE=de
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
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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..
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Let's include it in the hdinstall script
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.
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still german
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!
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If you have are in KDE and it is in german ...
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
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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 ?
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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
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What are the correct settings for this file for UK English?
Q
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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
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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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