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Titel: Need to change from German to English
 Verfasst am: 29.12.2006, 10:58 Uhr
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Anmeldung: 10. Apr 2005
Beiträge: 7
Wohnort: Phuket, Thailand
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| Kanotix 2006-Easter has been running well on my computer for many months. So now I want more, tried the 2006-01-RC4 Live CD (from ISO download), all OK, then did HD install. New install working well except the system language is German, and of course same in Terminal/console. This is a problem due to my rusty German and lack of German keyboard (cannot insert the > key). Note that in KDE and all my apps English is working fine. I do not want to reinstall ... should I wait for the 2006-1 Gold? and if so how do I ensure that the install will be in English? |
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Titel: RE: Need to change from German to English
Verfasst am: 29.12.2006, 11:48 Uhr
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Anmeldung: 11. Dez 2006
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At first sight, I would suggest to replace the assumedly pre-set boot parameter lang=de with something like lang=uk ...
HTH
Birdy |
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Verfasst am: 29.12.2006, 15:04 Uhr
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Anmeldung: 10. Apr 2005
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Wohnort: Phuket, Thailand
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| Such a replacement sounds plausible, but replace it exactly where? I have looked thorough the /boot and /boot/grub files, and through /etc, but no such parameter or boot options listing is apparent. |
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Verfasst am: 29.12.2006, 15:39 Uhr
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Anmeldung: 19. Jun 2005
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Wohnort: Hessen/Geinsheim
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you can try this
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dpkg-reconfigure locales
set-language-environment
if this doesn't work, you can change directly here /etc/sysconfig/i18n
here you can find the cheatcodes for grub http://kanotix.com/FAQ-id_cat-63.html#q245 |
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Verfasst am: 29.12.2006, 16:28 Uhr
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Anmeldung: 11. Dez 2006
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leonsk hat folgendes geschrieben::
Such a replacement sounds plausible, but replace it exactly where?
Code:
# /boot/grub/menu.lst
[snipped a lot of stuff]
title Kanotix 06.10 (2.6.18-k1)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-kanotix-1 root=/dev/sda2 ro acpi=off lang=uk # here we go ;-)
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-kanotix-1
HTH
Birdy |
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There are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX.
We don't believe this to be a coincidence. (Jeremy S. Anderson)
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Verfasst am: 30.12.2006, 14:59 Uhr
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Anmeldung: 10. Apr 2005
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Wohnort: Phuket, Thailand
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OK, I edited the /boot/grub/menu.lst file to include the cheatcodes lang=us keyboard=us.
System language now appearing in english vs german and my keyboard is fine. Curious thing is that some of the system messages in the Terminal/console still come up in german; seems that my system is speaking english but some of the installation scripts for packages are in german. Sehr eigentümlich indeed. |
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Verfasst am: 30.12.2006, 16:16 Uhr
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Anmeldung: 11. Dez 2006
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leonsk hat folgendes geschrieben::
Curious thing is that some of the system messages in the Terminal/console still come up in german; seems that my system is speaking english but some of the installation scripts for packages are in german. Sehr eigentümlich indeed.
After all, Kanotix is a german distribution (to some extend, at least)  however, you may check the locale settings as well, for some of the packages (read: scripts) might depend on that (although this is merely an assumption ...).
HTH
Birdy |
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There are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX.
We don't believe this to be a coincidence. (Jeremy S. Anderson)
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Verfasst am: 31.12.2006, 04:07 Uhr
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Anmeldung: 10. Apr 2005
Beiträge: 7
Wohnort: Phuket, Thailand
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| Locale is set as US. Never had the mixed-language situation with all my previous Kanotix installs (since early 2005). |
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Verfasst am: 31.12.2006, 11:48 Uhr
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Anmeldung: 17. Dez 2003
Beiträge: 16809
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After:
rm -rf /etc/sysconfig /etc/environment
This should work:
dpkg-reconfigure locales |
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Verfasst am: 31.12.2006, 13:20 Uhr
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Anmeldung: 10. Apr 2005
Beiträge: 7
Wohnort: Phuket, Thailand
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Thx Kano. I did the rm then the dpkg... Selected only DE with UTF-8 and US with UTF-8, then selected US as default. Still have problem with my keyboard, which is conventional US 105-key unit. All seems OK in KDE and in Terminal/Konsole but when i go to runlevel 3 (init 3) and log in as root the keyboard appears to act as German, that is, I cannot enter the > or < keys, have to use my "z" key to get "y" etc.
Have a great New Year; I am looking forward to more of this best of distros. |
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Verfasst am: 31.12.2006, 13:28 Uhr
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Anmeldung: 17. Dez 2003
Beiträge: 16809
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Ok, the xorg.conf default maybe still german, change it if you like. For console you do:
install-keymap us |
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Verfasst am: 31.12.2006, 13:40 Uhr
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Anmeldung: 10. Apr 2005
Beiträge: 7
Wohnort: Phuket, Thailand
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Did that in Konsole and checked w/init 3. Working fine now, thank you very much.
Will raise a toast to you at midnight ... 3hr-20 mins. |
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