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I am making a custom wordpress distribution I will use for my own sites including my language and a child theme. But, I want the permalinks to be /%postname%/ by default so that I don't need to change this in the setting after installation.

How can I do this?

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See this answer. It provides exactly what you need. – Tom Feb 17 '12 at 13:00
Where do I edit/add that code? Which file? – Anders Feb 17 '12 at 13:07
This would reside in your theme's functions.php file. – Tom Feb 17 '12 at 13:12
"Where do I edit/add that code? Which file?" - If you're making a custom WordPress distribution, you really should already know how to answer this question. That said, I would recommend putting it in a Plugin that you bundle with your custom distribution. – Chip Bennett Feb 17 '12 at 14:25
also make sure you don't run that code each run since running flush_rules(); is a very big on resources and with that function hooked on init meaning it will run on every page load – Bainternet♦ Feb 17 '12 at 14:49

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i wrote an article recently about how to customize your install (including setting permalinks) with install.php

http://www.kathyisawesome.com/421/customizing-wordpress-install/

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I got an error trying to access your site. Forbidden You don't have permission to access /421/customizing-wordpress-install/ on this server. Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. – Anders Jun 2 '12 at 0:33
you too? weird, b/c i have heard that from someone else, but i (and others) can see it just fine. cloudflare must have something against scandinavians. – helgatheviking Jun 2 '12 at 19:15

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