Re: locale not set, how do I set it?

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Jerry wrote:

> I have 3.4 installed to the hard disk. Trying to install software with 
> KPackage. It succesfully get the packages but when it tries to install 
> I get the following:
> perl: warning: Setting locale failed
> perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
>    LANGUAGE = (unset),
>    LC_ALL = "en_US",
>    LANG="C"
>  are supported and installed on your system.
> perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
> locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
> locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or 
> directory
> locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
> and then a bunch of dpkg-deb: subprocess tar killed by signal messages.
>
> How/where do I set the locale?
I had similar problems a week or two ago on several sid boxes. IIRC, it 
turned out that locales was not installed (anymore?). "apt-get install 
locales" solved my problem, I think.

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Kent