Change Ubuntu reporting language in Terminal (Konsole)

[Aart Koelewijn]

On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:57:29 +0100, LLLActive at GMail.com wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I am supporting a user that uses a German default language installation
> of 9.04 over ssh connections. On this German default language system,
> the man pages are shown in English; but that is OK. I am trying to
> generate a *.deb package with alien (sudo alien -c
> Epson-ALC1100-filter-1.2-0.i386.rpm). The reporting language for the
> errors comes in German at the end for "dpkg-shlibdeps:".
> 
> :~/Downloads/Epson/ALC1100/RPM$ sudo alien -c
> Epson-ALC1100-filter-1.2-0.i386.rpm
> [sudo] password for ~:
> Package build failed. Here's the log: dh_testdir
> dh_testdir
> dh_testroot
> dh_clean -k -d
> dh_installdirs
> dh_installdocs
> dh_installchangelogs
> find . -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -not -name debian -print0 | \
>                 xargs -0 -r -i cp -a {} debian/epson-alc1100-filter
> dh_compress
> dh_makeshlibs
> dh_installdeb
> dh_shlibdeps
> dpkg-shlibdeps: Warnung: Abhängigkeit von libgcc_s.so.1 könnte vermieden
> werden, falls »debian/epson-alc1100-filter/usr/bin/alc1100« nicht
> unnötigerweise dagegen gelinkt wäre (es verwendet keines seiner
> Symbole). dh_gencontrol
> dpkg-gencontrol: Fehler: aktuelle Host-Architektur »amd64« erscheint
> nicht in der Architekturliste (i386) des Pakets dh_gencontrol: command
> returned error code 65280 make: *** [binary-arch] Fehler 1
> find: "Epson-ALC1100-filter-1.2": No such file or directory
> 
> I need the Warnings in English (I do understand the German fully, but
> want to communicate with the programmer in English by sending it to them
> in English).
> 
> The locals installed are:
> 
> sudo locale-gen
> Generating locales...
> ...
>   de_DE.UTF-8... up-to-date
> ...
>   en_GB.UTF-8... up-to-date
> 
> How can I get English outputs without changing the system defaults?  Can
> it be set to en_GB.UTF-8 as default for the CLI sessions over ssh, but
> keep the GUI in German?
> 
> TIA
> 
>  :-)
> Al

In my environment I have set LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 and 
LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8. This gets me near to what you want. Only all menu's in 
all appliances are in english too. You may not wat that, but I have no 
idea how that can be changed.

Aart