Debian – Change the locale/language of apt-get/aptitude

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I have a Debian system on which aptitude produces German messages although I set the default locale to en_US.utf8. Is there a way to change that? I would prefer English messages.

Andre

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You can try re-configuring the locales package, which should ask you to set your system locale.

dpkg-reconfigure locales

You can also run aptitude with a specific locale, for troubleshooting.

LANG=en_US.UTF-8 aptitude

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