Linux console messages in English

Have you ever had the problem when working on locale Linux installations with foreign messages?

So when issueing a command you get a strange error where you can’t find a solution on Google or StackOverflow, like the following:

$ ls -l /ssbin
ls: kan inte komma åt '/ssbin': Filen eller katalogen finns inte

The solution here is to temporarely set the appropriate Locale to the default locale C for the command and you will get the English error message which will make it easier to find hints for the problem.

$ LC_ALL=C ls -l /ssbin
ls: cannot access '/ssbin': No such file or directory