Hi,

Is it possible to switch AntiX's main language from English to French (or any other language) AFTER the install is done?

Thanks

trudeal wrote:Hi,

Is it possible to switch AntiX's main language from English to French (or any other language) AFTER the install is done?

Thanks

Yes it is. Think of AntiX as Debian Squeeze when googling how to do this.

One way is for language. As root user in terminal
uncheck everything, but fr_FR in it's listing.

for Keyboard change
Since I am a country boy Texan who does not speak french. You can wait for someone who is a french user to respond instead of following my suggestions. They can probably tell you a shorter way to do what you want.


========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"http://wiki.debian.org/Locale"
linktext was:"http://wiki.debian.org/Locale"
====================================



========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"http://sblinux.org/antix/index.html"
linktext was:"http://sblinux.org/antix/index.html"
====================================

You will need to edit /etc/profile to add at the end

export LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8

and make sure your /etc/default/keyboard is set to your language of choice.

Thanks, but this did not work.
I have GNOME installed. Does this make a difference?

anticapitalista wrote:You will need to edit /etc/profile to add at the end

export LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8

and make sure your /etc/default/keyboard is set to your language of choice.

If you have gnome installed, you should set language through gnome settings. (Don't know where exactly as I don't use gnome). You may wish to install gdm and use it instead of slim login manager. At login you can choose the language setting.

OK thanks. I'll look into this tonight.
I ended up installing GNOME somewhat inadvertantly when I tried to add the GNOME screensaver. I did not initially realize that I was installing a whole new graphical interface.
Is there a disadvantage of having GNOME installed on top of AntiX?

Are you logging into the gnome desktop (or icewm or fluxbox)?

gnome on top doesn't affect antiX, just that gnome itself is heavier and slower than icewm or fluxbox, especialy noticeable on older boxes.

I just tried installing dgm.
Upon restarting the computer, I am now stalled and do not reach the login stage.
How can I now reverse the process and remove gdm...?

OK, after restarting a couple of times, I managed to reach login.
I could not see any choice for language.
I ended up removing gdm and going back to slim.
Still stuck with my problem of not being able to get the system running in French...

Just tried the dpkg-reconfigure locales command.
It worked great!
Thanks Rokytnji