I am trying to create a new system locale. I have studied the directions at Unix Stackexchange and at Ask Ubuntu but my attempts to get my environment variable into /etc/locale.gen have been unsuccessful.
I have created my environment variable according to Sourceware and copied it into /usr/share/i18n/locales. (All I'm really doing is using en_US and changing the LC_TIME variable to use en_DK, so I copied the LC_TIME portion of en_DK into en_US and I am trying to make this into a new variable so that is lasts through updates. Changing the LC_TIME portion within the en_US file is not working because updates often reset it back to its original state).
Let's call my new variable en_US@XX. After I copied my variable, running ls /usr/share/i18n/locales shows my new variable in the listing.
Now I run sudo localedef -i en_US@XX --quiet -f UTF-8 [email protected] and nothing is reported by bash leading me to believe everything was successfully done. But when I cat /etc/locale.gen | less my variable is not present. I have also tried command sudo localedef -i en_US@XX -c -f UTF-8 [email protected] but this doesn't work either.
If I can just get my variable into /etc/locale.gen, then I can run sudo locale-gen and I should be good.
So how do I get my variable to appear in /etc/locale.gen? Am I misunderstanding what localedef is supposed to be doing? Don't I need to get my variable into /etc/locale.gen to be able to generate it for system use?
What you seem to have missed is adding you custom locale to
with the line
Then a simple
sudo locale-genshould do what you want.