[dev] debian users?

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

Quoting Eric Rostetter <eric.rostetter@physics.utexas.edu>:

> You can install the locale support with the command
> dpkg-reconfigure locales

This will run the configuration process for the locales package, allowing
you to generate whichever locales you want active on your system.

> Someone asked about using instead:
> 
> apt-get install locales

This will install the locales package and _also_ run through initial
configuration for it. However, it is EXTREMELY unlikely that you'll be able
to find a Debian installation that made it through the initial install
without having this package installed, so you are likely to get a "sorry,
locales is already the latest version" notice if you run this.

So, the first one is correct in most cases, but if you want to be
exceptionally thorough, you can tell people that if they get an error saying
locales isn't installed, they can run the apt-get command.

-chuck

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