[SOLVED] how to set locales and keyboard layout in the command line without gui

Issue

I'd like to do a bash script that lets change the language of a debian based system by typing a number for each language. Sadly I'm not familiar with debconf.

How can I change the keyboard-layout and the language of the console permanently with debconf-selections

Thanks for your help.

Solution

The following might work:

1. Install console-data
2. Configure it to your liking via dpkg-reconfigure console-data
3. Save the values via debconf-get-selections | grep console-data > FILENAME
4. Load these values from your script via debconf-set-selections < FILENAME

I guess there is a pattern to the console-data configuration debconf file, so after a few dpkg-reconfigure you might be able to construct your own.

Answered By - TeTeT