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Asked: 2015-10-10 05:44:44 +0800 CST

How to automate 'dpkg-reconfigure locales' with one command?

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In the console to input dpkg-reconfigure locales,a gui jump out ,i select en_HK.UTF-8 as my target ,click enter.

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dpkg-reconfigure locales
Generating locales (this might take a while)...
en_HK.UTF-8... done

How to automate the whole process into one command ?

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6 Answers

  1. What worked charm for me was a combination between the @DevRobot's and the @Gunnar Hjalmarsson's answers (run as root). EDIT: Added some improvements to avoid annoying errors:

    update-locale "LANG=en_HK.UTF-8"
locale-gen --purge "en_HK.UTF-8"
dpkg-reconfigure --frontend noninteractive locales

    Another possibility (that works even better) is through the debconf-utils utilities and debconf-set-selections (run as root):

    echo "locales locales/default_environment_locale select en_HK.UTF-8" | debconf-set-selections
echo "locales locales/locales_to_be_generated multiselect en_HK.UTF-8 UTF-8" | debconf-set-selections
rm "/etc/locale.gen"
dpkg-reconfigure --frontend noninteractive locales

    Hope this might help.

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  2. I would suggest:

    echo "en_HK.UTF-8" | sudo tee -a /etc/locale.gen
sudo locale-gen

    or if it absolutely has to be "one command":

    echo "en_HK.UTF-8" | sudo tee -a /etc/locale.gen; sudo locale-gen

    For an explanation see my answer at https://askubuntu.com/a/1246655/912933

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  3. Best Answer

    One command:

    sudo update-locale LANG=en_HK.UTF-8

    Easy day :)

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  4. I would probably run:

    sudo locale-gen --purge

    That regenerates all the locales for your installed languages.

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  5. This gist had the solution for me:

    sudo sed -i '/^#.* en_US.* /s/^#//' /etc/locale.gen
sudo locale-gen
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  6. If you want to generate a single locale, this should theoretically suffice:

    echo "locales locales/locales_to_be_generated multiselect en_HK.UTF-8 UTF-8" | debconf-set-selections
dpkg-reconfigure --frontend noninteractive locales

    In practice though, dpkg-reconfigure will fail to generate the locale under Ubuntu 20.04. To workaround, you need an additional command:

    echo "locales locales/locales_to_be_generated multiselect en_HK.UTF-8 UTF-8" | debconf-set-selections
rm /etc/locale.gen
dpkg-reconfigure --frontend noninteractive locales
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