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Add sudo to locale-gen and localectl set-locale and set-keymap
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Update pages/linux/localectl.md
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Update pages/linux/localectl.md
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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions pages/linux/locale-gen.md
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- Generate locales:

`locale-gen`
`sudo locale-gen`

- Do not delete undefined locales:

`locale-gen --keep-existing`
`sudo locale-gen --keep-existing`
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- Set a system locale variable:

`localectl set-locale {{LANG}}={{en_US.UTF-8}}`
`sudo localectl set-locale {{LANG}}={{en_US.UTF-8}}`

- List available keymaps:

`localectl list-keymaps`

- Set the system keyboard mapping for the console and X11:

`localectl set-keymap {{us}}`
`sudo localectl set-keymap {{us}}`