Change language in Ubuntu server

Change language in Ubuntu server

My server is hosted by a french company (dedibox) and the default locale was set in french. It drives me crazy because I’m used to english.

Changing the locale is easy as pie but you’ll have to reboot your server.

Check the supported locales

Edit /var/lib/locales/supported.d/local and check wether the lines en_GB.UTF-8 UTF-8 or en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 are present.

Regenerate the locales

sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales

Change the default locales

Edit /etc/environment and change LANG by the appropriate value: en_BG.UTF-8 if you want british english.
Do the same in /etc/default/locale

Reboot your server

sudo reboot