Re: Setting locale failed

[Richard Black <rblack@algorithmics.com>]

I had the same problem and was able to fix it by adding the following line to my
/etc/locale.alias file:

english         en_US,ISO-8859-1

I'm not sure why this wasn't there anyway...

cheers

Richard

Marcelo Chiapparini wrote:

> Dear Debianers,
>
> When I apt-get install some packages I get the following message:
>
> perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
> perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
>         LANGUAGE = (unset),
>         LC_ALL = (unset),
>         LANG = "en.ISO8859-1"
>     are supported and installed on your system.
> perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
>
> what does it mean? How can I fix it? I didn't find any man page regarding
> locale...
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Marcelo
>
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> Marcelo Chiapparini
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>
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