I'm using Linux Mint. I'm unable to find the /etc/sysconfig/console file that would tell me the values of the keymap,font,utf-8 mode support,etc. values for my system. Is there a way I could do it? I tried echo $UNICODE and echo $FONT but they don't return anything. Pretty much a newbie to Linux. Kindly help or guide. :-)
asked Apr 4, 2012 at 18:11
1 Answer
The GB locale is not installed by default in the LFS implementation. You can see this if you run
locale -a
You need to install the locale definition for GB using
localedef
exec the following:
localedef -c -f UTF-8 -i en_GB en_GB.UTF-8
localedef -c -f ISO-8859-1 -i en_GB en_GB.ISO-8859-1
This give you the two main standards. Then all you need to do for console and profile is insert the locale code for GB using the process as is described in the book. (I have used the ISO standard in the code below.)
cat > /etc/sysconfig/console << "EOF"
# Begin /etc/sysconfig/console
KEYMAP="uk"
FONT="lat1-16 -m 8859-1"
# End /etc/sysconfig/console
EOF
and
cat > /etc/profile << "EOF"
# Begin /etc/profile
# export LANG=<ll>_<CC>.<charmap><@modifiers> translates to:
export LANG=en_GB.ISO-8859-1
# End /etc/profile
EOF
simples! ;-)
hope this helps Bick
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I've already implemented my LFS. I think I had skipped this file, and gone forward with the next section,as per the advice of members of the lfs irc channel. But this looks alright. I'll accept it,as it will be helpful for other people in future. :-) Thank you. Jun 9, 2012 at 14:42
localewill reveal some things about the current user's current session, but your question seems to be about something else, possibly not well-defined. Adding information about what you want this for would help clarify./etc/sysconfig/consolefile, Implementing Linux From Scratch. And I'm stuck here./etc/sysconfig/is RedHat-y.