I think I saw it here in the forum several times that there is a way to force apt to *talk* en instead of the language configured through the locale environment (here "de").
How can I do this?
You can use the LANGUAGE variable in your shell.
eg.
german: LANGUAGE="de_de.UTF-8" apt-get help
english: LANGUAGE="en_us.UTF-8" apt-get help
joogi@siductionbox:~# LANGUAGE="de_de.UTF-8" apt-get help
apt 0.9.8 für amd64, kompiliert am May 8 2013 18:45:41
Aufruf: apt-get [Optionen] befehl
apt-get [Optionen] install|remove paket1 [paket2 ...]
apt-get [Optionen] source paket1 [paket2 ...]
apt-get ist ein einfaches Befehlszeilenwerkzeug zum Herunterladen
und Installieren von Paketen. Die am häufigsten benutzten Befehle
sind update und install.
Befehle:
update – neue Paketinformationen holen
upgrade – Upgrade (Paketaktualisierung) durchführen
install – neue Pakete installieren (paket ist libc6, nicht libc6.deb)
remove – Pakete entfernen
..
If you want to change the time format, too: Checkout the LC_ variables :)
or if you would change it for a terminal session, you can use
export LANG=en_GB.utf8
for English, for example, you get a list with your installed languages with
locale-a
Thanks to both of you!
or
LANG=C apt-get foo bar
will talk in en.
Thanks towo, that's the one I remember and couldn't recall.