Just copy these lines into a .profile or .bashrc and be done ;->

# export LANG=de_DE.iso885915@euro <-- if exist
export LANG=de_DE
# export LC_ALL=de_DE.iso885915@euro <-- if exist
export LC_ALL=de_DE
export LANGUAGE=de_DE


At Wed, 17 Dec 2003 22:01:36 +0100 wrote gEnTi:

> hi
>
> i want to switch the language of gnome. now the whole gnome desktop env. is
> in english.
> someone told me, that i have to write the language into the file /etc
> profiles
>
> is that correct, and how looks that line that i have to add??
>
> export LANG="de" ????
>
> THX