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Hello my friends I bought a linux server but when I entered to it as root I saw that the terminal language is german. How can I change language  to english. Thanks for your help from now
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about terminal language

Submitted by Sven Arvidsson on Tue, 2006-12-12 18:00.

On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 13:54 -0800, Nevruz Mesut Sahin wrote:
> Hello my friends I bought a linux server but when I entered to it as
> root I saw that the terminal language is german. How can I change
> language to english. Thanks for your help from now

Hi,

Are you running Debian? If so, "dpkg-reconfigure locales" will let you
choose what locales you want, and which one to use as the default.

Otherwise, as a temporary work around, you can set the environment
variable LANG to C

export LANG=C

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Cheers,
Sven Arvidsson
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