Our 64-bit 1and1 Dedicated Server shipped with German as the default language on the CLI. Dead handy when you’re trying to troubleshoot…
See the comments section for a much more elegant solution to this problem.
I thought I’d found a solution by changing the Bash language but it broke some stuff (including yum) so I went back to the default and put up with it. By chance, whilst browsing around atomicrocketturtle.com, I found Scott had fixed the same problem far more elegantly:
Here a quick step-by-step guide for FC4, on the 64-bit systems:
- Login as root (or su)
- Backup your yum.conf file:
cp /etc/yum.conf /etc/yum.conf.YYYY-MM-DD
- Edit your /etc/yum.conf file
- Comment out the entries in your yum.conf which feature ‘update.onlinehome-server.info’. That server doesn’t work right now, and by commenting them out, yum will resort to the defaults in /etc/yum.repo.d
- Save yum.conf
- Run:
yum install system-config-language
- You’ll be asked to confirm. Now, let it install…
- To change the language, run this from the command line:
system-config-language
- Scroll up and choose English (British) (or whatever language you want).
- Hit the Tab key to switch to “OK”
- Hit return.
- Ta-da, English language feedback 🙂
For reference, your yum.conf should look something like this: yum.conf.txt