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