Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : change system language via CLI

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Here’s how to change system language via CLI.

Edit /etc/default/locale

# cat /etc/default/locale LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LANGUAGE="en_US:en"

Edit /var/lib/locales/supported.d/local

# cat /var/lib/locales/supported.d/local en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8

Issue locale-gen command to reflect on it.

# locale-gen Generating locales...  en_US.UTF-8... up-to-date Generation complete.

Finally then reboot the OS

# init 6

BackTrack Linux 5 : change GNOME language from English to Japanese

install language pack for Japanese.

root@bt:~# apt-get install language-pack-ja language-pack-gnome-ja

change LANG setting.

root@bt:~# localedef -i ja_JP -c -f UTF-8 ja_JP.UTF-8 root@bt:~# update-locale LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8 root@bt:~# echo $LANG en_US.UTF-8

after rebooting , LANG setting n’ GUI changed in Japanese.

root@bt:~# reboot root@bt:~# echo $LANG ja_JP.UTF-8