installed Intifada -dont have newer here + cant download.
It keeps reverting to us keymap whatever I do:
consolesetup, language-env, mepis system setup, localesetup

wanted locale norwegian

Change /etc/X11/xorg.conf xkblayout section to no rather than us
I presume you have done a dpkg-reconfigure locales.
then
Add this line to the end of the /etc/profile file.
export LANG=nn_NO.UTF-8 (or whatever it should be)

logout/login