aptitude looks funny

mahmoud · 02-03-2009, 07:35 AM

Hi
my aptitude looks funny it has a funny looking "a" and i know there is something i am supoosed to
install but i cant remember what it is can anyone help me

farslayer · 02-03-2009, 08:19 AM

you have a funny looking 'a' where ? not sure what you are talking about that aptitude looks funny.
could it be a locale or font issue ?

I normally run aptitude from the command line and don't bother with the curses interface, so it's never looked funny to me

http://algebraicthunk.net/~dburrows/.../rn01re01.html

mahmoud · 02-04-2009, 04:01 AM

yes its the locales thanks thats what i have been trying to remember
but which locale do install to make look ok i am using it from the command line as well

farslayer · 02-04-2009, 09:12 AM

dpkg-reconfigure locales

I don't know what your proper locale setting would be. mine is en_US.UTF-8 but I live in the US..

Code:

cat /etc/environment
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"

http://wiki.debian.org/Locale

mahmoud · 02-05-2009, 12:12 PM

It is still not working i have attached the image so you can see it

jdkaye · 02-05-2009, 01:24 PM

Hi Mahmoud,
Looking at your thumbnail attached I would guess that you're not using the correct encoding for your terminal program. Have you tried changing it until aptitude looks right?
cheers,
jdk

mahmoud · 02-06-2009, 12:02 PM

still cant get it to work and cant find any solutions online

jay73 · 02-06-2009, 12:17 PM

I have used this: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=622018
The article describes changing screen resolution but in doing so it also explains how to change locales; they key is running this:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure console-setup

Note: this describes the Ubuntu method; AFAIK Debian does not use console-tools so the method should be different one. Just do not ask me which one.

farslayer · 02-06-2009, 03:23 PM

it-lenny:~$ aptitude search ~i | grep console-tools
i console-tools - Linux console and font utilities

Yep Debian has console-tools installed.