Hi,
On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 07:11:24 -0400, Tom Allison <tallison@tacocat.net> wrote:
I'm trying to install/configure a notebook from the debian-installer and
testing/unstable branches.
I've not selected 'tasksel' in the installation process.
Now, every time that I attempt to run apt-get or many other things I get
hammered with these errors:
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LC_CTYPE = "en_US.UTF-8",
LANG = (unset)
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
And then I'm left with dozens of broken packages.
I don't think the breakage is from the locale problems. I used to have
stuff like this and installing worked great.
I ran into this about two months ago on another box and have no real
clue what I did to get it working again. But localedef and locales
doesn't seem to help anything at all. My /etc/locale.gen only contains
en_US ISO-8859-1
During the installation of (IIRC) xserver-xfree86 I was asked about
locales and at the time I selected only the en_UTF8. I'm not sure about
this package since installing this generally comes with a groundswell of
other packages as well.
Try dpkg-reconfigure -plow locales and see what it asks you. Locales
configuring sometimes seems to break for strange reasons it seems.
greets,
Wim