Change locales on Reform

MNT Reform
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I don’t know if questions about the operating system that are not directly related to the reform are also answered here.

In any case, I made a mistake when converting locales to de_DE.UTF-8.

First, I tried:

“sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales,” then:

“sudo locale-gen de_DE.UTF-8 && update-locale LANG=de_DE.UTF-8”

Since then, the following has been appearing in the terminal:

bash: warning: setlocale: LC_CTYPE: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8): No such file or directory
bash: warning: setlocale: LC_CTYPE: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8): No such file or directory
bash: warning: setlocale: LC_COLLATE: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8): No such file or directory
bash: warning: setlocale: LC_CTYPE: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8): No such file or directory
bash: warning: setlocale: LC_CTYPE: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8): No such file or directory
bash: warning: setlocale: LC_COLLATE: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8): No such file or directory

I am at my wit’s end with my already limited knowledge and would be grateful for any help.

Micha

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The commands you ran generate the locale data. You set the locale per process via environment variables. One such process is bash and it sources the environment variables from a variety of places like /etc/profile.d or your ~/.bashrc.

What is your output of:

env | grep "^LC_"

You will probably see various variables starting with LC_ being set for your bash and you have to figure out who sets them. You can have a look at the locations I mentioned above or you could even grep your /etc or $HOME to find who still has these variables set to en_US.UTF8

Often they are. :slight_smile:

3

Hi Josch,

micha@mntremk:~$ env | grep "^LC_"
micha@mntremk:~$

Micha

4

It would help to know what you have to do to get his output:

Because apparently your bash shell does not know about these environment variables.

5

These messages appear in the terminal without me doing anything when I open it. So I start bash and the message is there.

6

When I delete the text in the terminal with “clear,” close it with “exit,” and restart it with SUPER+ENTER, the message reappears.