How to change language from english to chinese by gui?

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GNOME help said Select your desired region and language. If your region and language are not listed, click … at the bottom of the list to select from all available regions and languages.but there is no chinese option if I install american english by default.

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这种问题先去搜了再来提问

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好像网上没有这种问题的答案。

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I assume the point OP wants to emphasize is “BY GUI”. Of course it’s not too hard for people to complete the task using terminal. GUI should be easier, but it requires you first having the language pack installed through dpkg-reconfigure locales. This implies a small issue people usually ignore. It seems Debian Gnome doesn’t provide a direct GUI way for normal user to install additional language pack (as far as I can see, correct me if I am wrong). Unlike Ubuntu, at least they have ‘language-selector-gnome’.

I haven’t tried logging as root/admin into the Gnome, maybe there will be a difference. (e.g.: search result show the language and you can install it, etc.). It won’t surprise me if this works, as it makes sense to require super user privilege to install additional language pack on the system in the case that you didn’t select them during the installation.

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[quote=“heraclitus”]I assume the point OP wants to emphasize is “BY GUI”. Of course it’s not too hard for people to complete the task using terminal. GUI should be easier, but it requires you first having the language pack installed through dpkg-reconfigure locales. This implies a small issue people usually ignore. It seems Debian Gnome doesn’t provide a direct GUI way for normal user to install additional language pack (as far as I can see, correct me if I am wrong). Unlike Ubuntu, at least they have ‘language-selector-gnome’.

I haven’t tried logging as root/admin into the Gnome, maybe there will be a difference. (e.g.: search result show the language and you can install it, etc.). It won’t surprise me if this works, as it makes sense to require super user privilege to install additional language pack on the system in the case that you didn’t select them during the installation.[/quote]

it is impossbile for me to change language.
it is impossbile for me to see no english on debian.
it is possbile for me to see no chinese on debian.

liujianwei@debian:~$ env | grep LANG LANG=en_US.utf8 GDM_LANG=en_US.utf8 liujianwei@debian:~$ export LANG=zh_cn.UTF-8 liujianwei@debian:~$ dpkg-reconfigure locales bash: dpkg-reconfigure: command not found liujianwei@debian:~$ export LANG=en-^CTF-8 liujianwei@debian:~$ env | grep LANG LANG=zh_cn.UTF-8 GDM_LANG=en_US.utf8 liujianwei@debian:~$ export LANG=en-US.UTF-8 liujianwei@debian:~$ env | grep LANG LANG=en-US.UTF-8 GDM_LANG=en_US.utf8 liujianwei@debian:~$ liujianwei@debian:~$ su Password: root@debian:/home/liujianwei# apt-get install dpkg-reconfigure Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package dpkg-reconfigure root@debian:/home/liujianwei#