Redhat Linux installation with only English installed

There are situations where you already have a running system that only uses English. Additional languages are installed during installation.

To manually install other languages:

  1. Manually install the "kde rpm" from your Redhat CDs. For example, use kde-i18n-Chinese-Big5XXXXX on your CD for Traditional Chinese.
  2. Export/set the language environment variables if they are in English. Use locale -a to get a list of locales.
    Reference from isdred003:
    [hci@isdred003 ~]$ locale
    LANG=zh_TW.UTF-8
    LC_CTYPE="zh_TW.UTF-8"
    LC_NUMERIC="zh_TW.UTF-8"
    LC_TIME="zh_TW.UTF-8"
    LC_COLLATE="zh_TW.UTF-8"
    LC_MONETARY="zh_TW.UTF-8"
    LC_MESSAGES="zh_TW.UTF-8"
    LC_PAPER="zh_TW.UTF-8"
    LC_NAME="zh_TW.UTF-8"
    LC_ADDRESS="zh_TW.UTF-8"
    LC_TELEPHONE="zh_TW.UTF-8"
    LC_MEASUREMENT="zh_TW.UTF-8"
    LC_IDENTIFICATION="zh_TW.UTF-8"
    LC_ALL=   
  3. Modify /etc/sysconfig/i18n.
    Reference from isdred003:
    [hci@isdred003 ~]$ cat /etc/sysconfig/i18n
    LANG="zh_TW.UTF-8"
    SYSFONT="lat0-sun16"   

    You must install the multi-byte version before doing the changes above. If you have performed the changes before installing the system, then configure a command-line window before launching the system installer, using one of these:

    • setenv LANG en_US.UTF-8
    • export LANG=en_US.UTF-8