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How change the default language (Spanish to English) from the console??? I have already installed in Spanish but I want to change it to English without reinstall the system... Thanks!!!...
  1. 11-06-2007 #1
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    How change the language from console without reinstall??



    How change the default language (Spanish to English) from the console??? I have already installed in Spanish but I want to change it to English without reinstall the system...

    Thanks!!!
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    Edit the file /etc/environment (you will need to use sudo).
    It should contain the lines:
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    LANG="en_GB.UTF-8"
LANGUAGE="en_GB:en"
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    Thanks!! I gonna try!!!
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