How to change language from German to English

**quddusaliquddus** · 11-25-2007, 11:51 PM

Hi all,

Im new to Knoppix [or anything to do with linux] and i just burned knoppix 5.2 dvd. When start the pc it lets me use knoppix but everything is in german! I tried changing the logo in the taskbar to english and that didnt work. I tried typing in knoppix lang=en at the beginning but that didnt help either.

Can someone help me please? It would be much appreciated. THANK YOU !!!

Regards

Q

**Harry Kuhman** · 11-26-2007, 12:46 AM

If you follow the Get Knoppix link near the top of this page, you'll find that the "newest" officially Internet released version of Knoppix is 5.1.1 .

(And by newest I mean about 20 months old!)

There was a 5.2 version made for a German trade show, but it seems that not much effort was made to get all of the English support in that (as your post seems to confirm).

So if you choose to use unofficial releases, it should not be a big surprise that you see some problems that most of us have not seen.

If you are managing to type lang=en (that = sign can be hard to type on a system that thinks you have a German keyboard!), that about all that I know to suggest that you do, other than use BitTorrent to download a proper ISO of 5.1.1 with EN in the name rather than DE.

**quddusaliquddus** · 11-26-2007, 02:02 AM

Thanks. That cleared it up.

**rrefer** · 12-19-2007, 02:49 PM

Hi there,
The correct syntax/command to change from german to english is :
knoppix lang=us and NOT as another member pointed out : knoppix lang=en !!
I have the same version as yours :5.2 and that is the command I use with no problems at all.
have a nice day !