While this works reasonably well in Gnome, it does not on the VT where I
get a German/English mix
$ set|egrep '(LC_|LANG)'
LANG=de_DE.utf8
LANGUAGE=de_DE:de:en_US:en
LC_MESSAGES=en_US.utf8
$ aptitude install asdlkjasdlfa
Paketlisten werden gelesen...
Abhängigkeitsbaum wird aufgebaut...
Reading state information...
Reading extended state information...
Initializing package states...
Building tag database...
E: Konnte Lockdatei /var/lib/dpkg/lock nicht öffnen - open (13 Permission
denied)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?
** Changed in: belocs-locales-bin (Ubuntu)
Status: Invalid => New
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LC_MESSAGES not honored
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/190193
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