On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 02:57:37PM +0200, Lukas Ruf wrote:
> recently, I installed for a friend a Debian Woody in German.  However,
> he was not convinced of Linux and gave me the disk back.  Since I
> configured everything already, I would like to keep the installation
> but just switch the whole language to English, e.g. 
> make foo should report 
>   make: *** No rule to make target `foo'.  Stop.
> instead of
>   make: *** Keine Regel, um "foo" zu erstellen.  Schluss.
> 
> Is there a way to easily set the language from German to English
> (including all man pages etc.)?

Set LC_MESSAGES=C in your environment.

> Do I have to re-install parts (which?) or the whole Woody?

Certainly not!

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                  [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]


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