[arch-general] How do I uncomment a locale?
Hi, I am busy installing Arch core and am stuck at configuring the locale-gen part of the process. I am asked to uncomment the locales I need. Does this mean to delete them? There is a long list of them and I presume I need to delete all except the Australian ones (in my case). Do I simply delete them from this screen? Grant McDuling Writer http://www.amazon.com/Grant-McDuling/e/B004UTH35M
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 12:40 AM, Grant McDuling
Hi, I am busy installing Arch core and am stuck at configuring the locale-gen part of the process. I am asked to uncomment the locales I need. Does this mean to delete them? There is a long list of them and I presume I need to delete all except the Australian ones (in my case). Do I simply delete them from this screen?
'#' at the beginning of the line indicates a comment # commented # commented # commented uncommented # commented ... Simply edit the file and remove '#' from the lines you need.
remove the # from the start of the line you want to use
On Dec 14, 2011 8:41 AM, "Grant McDuling"
Basically, many config files using this syntax, when read, will strip everything that is located to the right of hash signs (#) including those hash signs (except when enclosed with quotes or other cases). This makes it that the only lines that will be left in the locale.gen file are those that do not contain hash signs, or have text preceding it. In your case it would be the Australian English locale (en_AU, I think). Yes, you could erase all the other lines, but it serves no use to do so, and might make it slightly harder if you later wish to add another locale (foreign visitor, learning a new language, troubleshooting deficient locales...). -- Sébastien Leblanc
On 14.12.2011 01:02, Sébastien Leblanc wrote:
In your case it would be the Australian English locale (en_AU, I think).
What is the difference between en_GB, en_US and en_AU ? Is the motd updated to tell you "Good morning, Sir", "Hi guy" or "Good day, mate"? -- Fred
What is the difference between en_GB, en_US and en_AU ? Is the motd updated to tell you "Good morning, Sir", "Hi guy" or "Good day, mate"?
man 7 locale This affects stuff like spelling differences, dd/mm/yyyy or mm/dd/yyyy dates, 12 hour or 24 hour clocks. == John K Pate http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/s0930006/ -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
Thanks everyone for your help. I have Arch (Gnome) up and running beautifully and I am now a convert. But when I boot up, I don't have an Arch logo on the boot up screen as I see some do on You Tube. Any way I can fix this? Grant On 15/12/2011, at 8:32 PM, Frédéric Perrin wrote:
On 14.12.2011 01:02, Sébastien Leblanc wrote:
In your case it would be the Australian English locale (en_AU, I think).
What is the difference between en_GB, en_US and en_AU ? Is the motd updated to tell you "Good morning, Sir", "Hi guy" or "Good day, mate"?
-- Fred
Grant McDuling Writer http://www.amazon.com/Grant-McDuling/e/B004UTH35M
On 12/16/2011 12:41 AM, Grant McDuling wrote:
Thanks everyone for your help. I have Arch (Gnome) up and running beautifully and I am now a convert. But when I boot up, I don't have an Arch logo on the boot up screen as I see some do on You Tube. Any way I can fix this?
Grant
Welcome aboard. First of all, we hate top posting. Secondly, we dropped the arch logo from boot screen some time ago.
On 15/12/2011, at 8:32 PM, Frédéric Perrin wrote:
On 14.12.2011 01:02, Sébastien Leblanc wrote:
In your case it would be the Australian English locale (en_AU, I think).
What is the difference between en_GB, en_US and en_AU ? Is the motd updated to tell you "Good morning, Sir", "Hi guy" or "Good day, mate"?
-- Fred
Grant McDuling Writer
-- Ionuț
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 11:48 PM, Ionut Biru
On 12/16/2011 12:41 AM, Grant McDuling wrote:
Thanks everyone for your help. I have Arch (Gnome) up and running beautifully and I am now a convert. But when I boot up, I don't have an Arch logo on the boot up screen as I see some do on You Tube. Any way I can fix this?
Grant
Welcome aboard.
First of all, we hate top posting.
+1 Pretty please.
Secondly, we dropped the arch logo from boot screen some time ago.
Relevant thread https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=124730
On 15/12/2011, at 8:32 PM, Frédéric Perrin wrote:
On 14.12.2011 01:02, Sébastien Leblanc wrote:
In your case it would be the Australian English locale (en_AU, I think).
What is the difference between en_GB, en_US and en_AU ? Is the motd updated to tell you "Good morning, Sir", "Hi guy" or "Good day, mate"?
-- Fred
Grant McDuling Writer
On Dec 16, 2011 4:12 AM, "Grant McDuling"
Thanks everyone for your help. I have Arch (Gnome) up and running
beautifully and I am now a convert. But when I boot up, I don't have an Arch logo on the boot up screen as I see some do on You Tube. Any way I can fix this?
Grant
You can have a boot splash. Check plymouth, fbsplash etc. on the arch wiki.
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Frédéric Perrin
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Grant McDuling
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Ionut Biru
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John K Pate
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Karol Blazewicz
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Madhurya Kakati
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Nicholas MIller
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Sébastien Leblanc