Change from Great Britain Settings to US Settings on RPi

One of the most annoying things about the RPi for most of us is that it was built by Brits. Here are a few of the ramifications of this fact:

  1. By default, the trash can is called the rubbish bin. I don’t know about you, but I don’t normally throw things into the “rubbish bin”, I throw them into the “trash can”
  2. I don’t want to use British servers with British language repos when I use sudo apt-get update etc.

How do we make the RPi recognize that we aren’t Brits? Well, we need to change the locale to en_US. Here’s how to do that:

  1. Run this command sudo raspi-config in a terminal
  2. Use your keyboard to navigate to the Internationalization Options item and press enter or return on your keyboard
  3. Navigate to the Continue reading “Change from Great Britain Settings to US Settings on RPi”