adriagalin.locales

This is an Ansible role that installs the locales package and sets up your system’s locale.

Requirements

Tested on:

• Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Should work on:

• All Ubuntu versions

Role Variables

# Time in seconds to cache apt-update.
ag_apt_cache_valid_time: 3600

# Path to the locale file.
ag_locale_config_path: /var/lib/locales/supported.d/local

# Language packs you want to install.
ag_locales_language_packs_present:
  - { language: language-pack-en, state: latest }
  - { language: language-pack-en-base, state: latest }

# Language packs you want to remove.
ag_locales_language_packs_absent: []

# Default locale.
ag_default_locale: en_US.UTF-8

# Locales you want to include.
ag_locales_present:
  - en_US.UTF-8

# Locales you want to remove.
ag_locales_absent: []

If you need more customized locales, check the templates/etc/default/locale.j2 file. There are other variables available.

Dependencies

None needed.

Example Playbook

    - hosts: servers
      roles:
         - { role: adriagalin.locales }

To Do

• Add Debian path for locale.

License

GPLv3 License.

Author Information

Adrià Galín

Inspiration

During development, I was inspired by several roles in Ansible Galaxy and GitHub:

• michaelrigart
• knopki
• tersmitten
• nickjj
• And many others.

Thank you.