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bmike1

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Registered: 2021-09-08

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trying to edit locale.gen <solvwe

but none of the editors that the installation guide says to use (mcedit, nano, or vim) are on the system. what can I do?

Last edited by bmike1 (2021-09-30 15:17:07)

Trilby

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Re: trying to edit locale.gen <solvwe

Then install one.

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bmike1

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Re: trying to edit locale.gen <solvwe

okay.  done. thanks.

2ManyDogs

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Re: trying to edit locale.gen <solvwe

Please remember to mark your thread [SOLVED] (edit the title of your first post).

TJM

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Re: trying to edit locale.gen <solvwe

If you don't like ncurses based editors, you could try sed :-)
For example:

# sed -i 's/^#en_US/en_US/' /etc/locale.gen