locale settings

[lee]

Sergio <sergiocmailbox-userlist at yahoo.com.br> writes:

> On 11/13/2012 07:42 PM, Sergio wrote:
>> On 11/13/2012 06:27 PM, lee wrote:
>>> Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> writes:
>>>
>>>> Is anyone else using Fedora in Australia and noticed that locale
>>>> settings aren't what they ought to be?
>>>>
>>>> Specifically that the system locale, despite being set up during
>>>> post-installation, was on a US setting.  And that personal locales
>>>> inherit that, and each logon needs manually setting to Australian.   And
>>>> that applications that print need manually setting to A4, instead of
>>>> already being preset to A4 by the locale (or even not preselecting from
>>>> the printer settings).
>>>
>>> What is the equivalent of Debians 'dpkg-reconfigure locale' in Fedora?
>>> And btw, what's Fedoras equivalent of apt-file?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> F18 has changed in this regard, now it uses localectl. In F17 I think it
>> was setup with system-config-<something>
>>
>> What's apt-file?

Thank you!

> If apt-file is to search for a file in a package then have a look at
> rpm's options.
> Also 'repoquery -l' (yum-utils).

Yes, it is a tool that can search for packages containing a given file.
It might be like 'repoquery -f', giving more useful results easier than
'repoquery -f' seems to do.  I need to learn more about the package
management; so far I just used it without much reading, so it was simple
enough :)


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