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How to change the language of KDE applications
== How to change the language of your Debian system ==

* First, you have to set environment variables such as LANG, LANGUAGE, LC_CTYPE, LC_MESSAGES to your local language. Usually LANG (or LC_ALL) is sufficient. (shamedlessly stolen from Claws Mail doc ;)
Check what you have at presente with: #env | grep LANG
* Second, you may also need to reconfigure your locales.

To do this, as root:

'''First:''' issue on a root terminal #export LANG=(the two letter code for your country).UTF-8
That is, for the Spanish language it would be:{{{
# export LANG=es_ES.UTF-8
}}}

'''Second:''' reconfigure locales issuing the following command:{{{

# dpkg-reconfigure locales
}}}

A window will ask you to select the languages you want to have available. Choose your own.

Changes may not show inmediately, a reboot will be needed.

(Please feel free to modify these instructions if you know better. Thanks.)

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'''How to change the language of KDE applications'''

How to change the language of your Debian system

* First, you have to set environment variables such as LANG, LANGUAGE, LC_CTYPE, LC_MESSAGES to your local language. Usually LANG (or LC_ALL) is sufficient. (shamedlessly stolen from Claws Mail doc ;) Check what you have at presente with: #env | grep LANG * Second, you may also need to reconfigure your locales.

To do this, as root:

First: issue on a root terminal #export LANG=(the two letter code for your country).UTF-8 That is, for the Spanish language it would be:

# export LANG=es_ES.UTF-8

Second: reconfigure locales issuing the following command:

# dpkg-reconfigure locales

A window will ask you to select the languages you want to have available. Choose your own.

Changes may not show inmediately, a reboot will be needed.

(Please feel free to modify these instructions if you know better. Thanks.)


How to change the language of KDE applications

Show available languages:( DebSearch:kde-i18n )

  apt-cache search kde-i18n 

Change the language:

  apt-get install kde-i18n-thetwoletter (of your country)

as an example (for german 'de'utschland) :

  apt-get install kde-i18n-de 

Now you have your language in all KDE applications!