Re: locale message error

[Emanoil Kotsev <deloptes@yahoo.com>]

Marcelo Chiapparini wrote:

> Dear debianners,
> 
> I just installed lenny in my girlfriend laptop. We live in Brazil, and
> initially I  chooses pt-br as the default language of the system.
> After this, I've changed my mind, and moved to the en_US.UTF-8
> locales. But now, each time the desktop is loaded, appears and
> inoffensive but annoying message "Language pt_BR.UTF-8 does not exist;
> using system default". The default language is English, as I defined
> before. I would like to eliminate this message.
> 
> The ouput of locale command is the following:
> 
> $ locale
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_ALL=
> 
> and the content of /etc/default/locale is
> 
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> 
> so, I wonder from where the system tries to load the pt_BR.UTF-8
> locales...
> 
> Any help will be very welcome
> 
> Regards
> 
> Marcelo

you have to regenerate your locales

dpkg-reconfigure locales

or edit /etc/locale.gen
and run locale-gen