Re: installing a locale

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

On 2023-05-05 23:22, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Anadon wrote:
> > It does not.  I have been looking for a command like that.  I don't
> > see an installable target for Ukrainian anywhere in the repos.
>
> Traditionally, on glibc systems, you install the Ukrainian locale
> through
>    # localedef -i uk_UA -f UTF-8 uk_UA.UTF-8
>
> On Debian (and derivative) systems, this command is not persistent.
> To make it persistent, edit the file
>    /etc/locale.gen
> uncommenting the line with uk_UA.UTF-8, and then invoke
>    # locale-gen

And on Ubuntu (which the OP seems to use) it's sufficient to just 
install a package named language-pack-uk. Doing so will generate the 
Ukrainian locale persistently behind the scenes.

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