1and1 dedicated server: change German language to English
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
Change default language in bash « Mind Circus said,
27 February, 2007 at 10:59 am
[...] This doesn’t work properly (it breaks some stuff), but I’ve written up a much more elegant solution from ART which does actually [...]
Kieran Jones said,
27 February, 2007 at 10:20 pm
I called 1&1 and a guy phoned me back to say to do this and it will all be fixed, and he wasn’t lying either! You solution seems to be a very complex way of doing it…
Vi the following file:
/etc/sysconfig/i18n
Make sure the file reads:
LANG=”en_GB.UTF-8″
SYSFONT=”latarcyrheb-sun16″
OR
LANG=”en_US.UTF-8″
SYSFONT=”latarcyrheb-sun16″
Jeremy said,
2 March, 2007 at 10:54 pm
I am having similar problems with my 1and1 server.
I don’t have a yum.repo.d file.
Can you send me yours or tell me what repositories you are using?
I can’t connect to the 1and1 backup servers either - can you give me any hints on what you did to get that working?
I need the kernel source files - any idea where I can find those?
Thanks a million!
Spencer said,
8 March, 2007 at 6:46 am
I also have the same problem and no yum.repo.d
Is there some place to get this file and add it to the server?
Phil Wiffen said,
8 March, 2007 at 9:19 am
Jeremy, Spencer:
yum.repo.d isn’t a file, it’s a directory. I don’t know why you don’t have it. Perhaps you guys have something other than a 64-bit Businesss Root server from 1and1?
Check out the instructions that Kieran gives above. That’ll solve your problem without my long-winded solution