UPDATE-LOCALE(8)

💖 UPDATE-LOCALE(8) 💖

okay so welcome to the System Manager's Manual 🎀 this is the page for update-locale, and it's literally the tool for keeping your global locale settings in check ✨

🧚 NAME

update-locale — Modify global locale settings 🌸

📝 SYNTAX

update-locale [OPTIONS] [var=locale | var] [...]

✨ DESCRIPTION

okay so this program is bestie-level useful 🫶 maintainer scripts can call it when Debian packages get installed or removed, and it updates the /etc/locale.conf file so it matches what's going on with your system's global locale settings 🌈

when a variable shows up with no value assigned, it gets removed from the locale file 💀 and before anything gets written, it does some basic checks to make sure the settings you asked for are actually valid. no cap, it's giving responsible 💅

🎀 OPTIONS

• --help — shows you a help message and then exits 🙈
• --reset — any variables you didn't set on the command line get cleared out 🧹 this one's a whole glow-up, so be careful with it 😭
• --locale-file FILE — lets you pick the file that holds your locale variables 🦋 if you don't pick one, it defaults to /etc/locale.conf
• --no-checks — skips the sanity checks on your locale variables 🔥 you do you, but the checks are there for a reason

🍓 EXAMPLE

the vibe here is so clean 💜 this command:

update-locale LANG=en_CA.UTF-8 LANGUAGE

sets LANG to en_CA.UTF-8 and removes the definition for LANGUAGE. iconic behaviour, periodt ✨

📂 FILES

• /etc/locale.conf — the file where your global locale settings are stored 🌷

👑 AUTHOR

this page was written by Denis Barbier <barbier@linuxfr.org> 🫶

🦋 SEE ALSO

locale-gen(8), locale(1) 💖

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ngl that's the whole page, bestie 🌈 this was the Debian GNU/Linux manual, dated April 2006, with UPDATE-LOCALE(8) as the footer, so now you're fully caught up 💅✨