How can I make applications show their messages in another language than english?
There are many *.mo files in /usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/ however none of the
applications that should use these mo's appear in greek.
eg. there is /usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/mutt.mo and a 'cat
export LANG=el
this should be enough if ou want everything in greek, but you have to put the
environment variable in your bash profile. For example. if you want your whole system
in greek (= for all users) than the correct file is /etc/profile. And if you want it
only for a particular your
:-/ well I found what the problem was... I had to create a link el_GR to point to el
(el_GR was the used in the past but not nowadays), and have all those variables have
the value el_GR instead of el... thank you anyway for your time! For all those still
trying to configure locales in their
