Re: Locale Problem

[mockingbird@earthlight.co.nz (Chris Bannister)]

On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 12:57:31AM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 09:18:49PM -0800, Jeff Grossman wrote:
> > I get the following error messages whenever I update or install a program 
> > with aptitude:
> >
> > perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
> > perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
> >        LANGUAGE = "en_US",
> >        LC_ALL = "en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8",
> >        LANG = "en_US"
> >    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
> >
> > How would I go about fixing this problem?
> >
> > Jeff
> >
> >
> 
> Do you have the locales package installed?

Yeah, and I would add "dpkg-reconfigure perl" if you are still getting
those perl messages *after* setting up the locales package. I vaguely
remember going through this myself.

(In fact ol' dpkg-reconfigure is worth a shot before you start pulling
hair and hunting the web.)

-- 
Chris.
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