Change Ubuntu reporting language in Terminal (Konsole)

[LLLActive@GMail.com]

On Nov 5, 2009, at 10:16 PM, LLLActive at GMail.com wrote:

>
> On Nov 5, 2009, at 8:42 PM, Aart Koelewijn wrote:
>
>> 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:".
>>>
>>>
>>> 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
>>
>>
>
> Hi Aart,
>
> do you mean that the applications in the cli terminal session also
> become English? That is ok - as long as the gnome gui does not change.
>
> Could there be a way to create a user with other language settings, in
> this case an English user in gnome gui that is mainly another default
> setting? In that way the cli will also then be in English. I will
> install 9.10 in VirtualBox and try that out. Anyone tried that before?
>
>
> :-)
> Al
ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
>

Well, in my new 9.10 VB installation (no problems so far - contra the  
other posts "Re: 9.10 is a black eye for Ubuntu"), I do not see a way  
to give a user another language default in the gnome gui. Would have  
been neat though!

So I am still looking for a way to get English error reports from apps  
in the cli, that could also be set in the environment of a different  
user when logged in from the terminal session cli wirh su <user> -. I  
know where to set such things as the prompt for openSUSE (.profile),  
but not yet for Ubuntu/Deb. In openSUSE 11.2 in the user's home  
directory (in the .profiles file), I have:

# Most applications support several languages for their output.
# To make use of this feature, simply uncomment one of the lines below  
or
# add your own one (see /usr/share/locale/locale.alias for more codes)
# This overwrites the system default set in /etc/sysconfig/language
# in the variable RC_LANG.
#
#export LANG=de_DE.UTF-8        # uncomment this line for German output
#export LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8        # uncomment this line for French output
#export LANG=es_ES.UTF-8        # uncomment this line for Spanish output

I can't get to the German user now, but I tried it on my VB  
installation. It is an English US installation, where I uncommeted the  
de.DE.UTF-8, but it did not work on Ubuntu 9.10 in the user's .profile  
file.

Any ideas welcome.

:-)
Al


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