Re: Locale won't set

[Haines Brown <brownh@hartford-hwp.com>]

Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es> writes:

> 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

Unfortunately, that syntax is not supported on my machine. Perhaps I
misunderstood it.

> 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.)

That seems to have done it. Thanks for the
clarification. Incidentally, my locale.gen file is not commented for
some reason.

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       Haines Brown, KB1GRM