Ubuntu: errors in terminal: how to show them in english language?

Question

i installed Ubuntu in italian language. Now I would like to see the error commands in english.

For example if i write:

$ mmmm

This is showed:

mmmm: comando non trovato

I would like that

mmmmm: command was not found

is showed.

Any idea?

Regards

Javi

Answer 1

The language used by most applications uses the LC_LANG or LANG environment variables to find your language.

You can override it by adding a line

LANG=en_US.UTF-8

• to the file ~/.profile if you want it to be changed for all applications (including GUI applications)

• to the file ~/.bashrc for only applications you launch from inside the terminal (assuming your shell is bash).

You can also override it on a per-application basis by prefixing your command with that definition, e.g.

$ LANG=en_US.UTF-8 ls