Change the locale/language of apt-get/aptitude

Question

I have a Debian system on which aptitude produces German messages although I set the default locale to en_US.utf8. Is there a way to change that? I would prefer English messages.

Andre

Answer 1

Starting a new shell did the trick.

Answer 2

You can try re-configuring the locales package, which should ask you to set your system locale.

dpkg-reconfigure locales

You can also run aptitude with a specific locale, for troubleshooting.

LANG=en_US.UTF-8 aptitude