perl package environment problems

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@shellworld.net>]

The perl warnings are still with me:



perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
        LANGUAGE = (unset),
        LC_ALL = (unset),
        LANG = ""en_US.UTF-8""
    are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling 
back to the standard locale ("C"). After having reinstalled locales and 
having done dpkg-reconfigure locales and chosen my locale, this problem 
set persists.  Doing export LANG = en_US.UTF-8 just hangs the system and I 
was doing that as root.  The oupgrade process used a sarge-net-inst disk 
and actually installed lenny then I did the upgrade from lenny to sid and 
came up with this complication.  What did I forget to do that caused this 
complication?