UPDATE-LOCALE(8) System Manager's Manual UPDATE-LOCALE(8)
NAME
update-locale - Modify global locale settings
SYNTAX
update-locale [OPTIONS] [var=locale | var] [...]
DESCRIPTION
This program can be called by maintainer scripts when Debian packages are installed or re-
moved, it updates the /etc/default/locale file to reflect changes in system configuration
related to global locale settings. When variables have no value assigned, they are re-
moved from the locale file. Some basic checks are performed to ensure that requested set-
tings are valid.
OPTIONS
--help Display an help message and exit.
--reset
Variables which are not set on command-line are cleared out.
--locale-file FILE
Define file containing locale variables. (Default: /etc/default/locale)
--no-checks
Do not perform sanity checks on locale variables.
EXAMPLE
The command
update-locale LANG=en_CA.UTF-8 LANGUAGE
sets LANG to en_CA.UTF-8 and removes definitions for LANGUAGE.
FILES
/etc/default/locale
File where global locale settings are stored.
AUTHOR
Denis Barbier <barbier AT linuxfr.org>
SEE ALSO
locale-gen(8), locale(1)
Debian GNU/Linux April 2006 UPDATE-LOCALE(8)
Generated by $Id: phpMan.php,v 4.55 2007/09/05 04:42:51 chedong Exp $ Author: Che Dong
On Apache
Under GNU General Public License
2026-01-11 13:47 @216.73.216.127 CrawledBy Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)