change language and keyboard layout on Ubuntu server 10.04 LTS

Posted: August 15, 2011 in Uncategorized

Just a few notes to help anyone, who’s setting up an Ubuntu-Server with version 10.04 LTS:

  1. keyboard layout
    • install these packages: console-data unicode-data language-pack-de-base
      • replace “de” with the locale you need (de is for german locale)
    • (if it has not already run automatically) run: dpkg-reconfigure console-setup
  2. language-settings in the console
    • (you might also need to install language-pack-de-base)
    • run: dpkg-reconfigure locales
    • edit /etc/default/locale
      • put in LANG=”de_DE.UTF-8″ instead of the default entry
    • to really see, if it worked all the way, you have to reboot. But just starting the shell again by running “bash” should also do the trick for a while. ;)

Well, that’s already it. Sometimes it not about the quantity, but the quality. ;)

 

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