Re: Locale won't set

[Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es>]

On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 07:28:10 -0400, Haines Brown wrote:
> I believe I'm getting closer.
> 
> I can't reinstall locales because with locales broken, I can't install
> any packages. Is it possible to do a package installation without its
> calling locales?

Did you already try to reconfigure the "locales" package like this:

LANG=C LC_ALL=C dpkg-reconfigure locales

This should run dpkg-reconfigure unlocalized, so hopefully it will allow
you to use it regardless of the missing data for en_US.UTF-8. Then it
should be possible to select and regenerate the en_US.UTF-8 locale.

If the above does not work then you can check if /etc/locale.gen
contains a line for en_US.UTF-8 and then you can run 

locale-gen

directly to create the localization data. (See also the comments in
/etc/locale.gen.)

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