[Solved] X/Ubuntu 11.10: How to change the region to Germany

[Tommes]

Hi,

i want to set the language/region to german.
German could be installed at the regions, but it's grey, i can't activate it

Any ideas ?


thx & greetz, Tommes

[Tommes]

Solved !

Let's go:

# Go to the console

sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration

# select generic PC-Tastatur 105 Tasten
# ... -> Deutsch ... -> Deutsch

# Editing the ~/.profile

nano ~/.profile

# go to the end of file and edit the lines like this:

export LANG="de_DE.UTF-8"
export LANGUAGE="de_DE:de"
export LC_MESSAGES="de_DE.UTF-8"
export LC_CTYPE="de_DE.UTF-8"
export LC_COLLATE="de_DE.UTF-8"

# Go to console
sudo locale-gen de_DE@euro
setxkbmap -model pc105 -layout de -variant basic

And now nearly all incl. the keyboard-layout is in german


This helped me: http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/spracheinstellungen

Perhaps it works with other languages/regions, too

EDIT:

to get Ubuntu 11.04 in german:

sudo apt-get install language-pack-gnome-de language-pack-gnome-de-base
-> Systemsettings -> Region -> German(y) -> apply systemwide
Set the Timezone: Click on the time -> set the timezone to Berlin -> Get time from internet

Greets, Tommes