RE: locale problem when setting up a chroot using debootstrap

["Kevin Ross" <Kevin@FamilyRoss.net>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: andy baxter [mailto:andy@earthsong.free-online.co.uk] 
> Sent: Sunday, August 16, 2009 2:28 PM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: locale problem when setting up a chroot using debootstrap
> 
> I'm setting up a chroot using debootstrap, eventually for use 
> with user 
> mode linux. I have got it mostly working ok, but when I install some 
> packages (e.g. mc), there are a load of errors which seem to be to do 
> with locales. Perl (I think) is saying something like check that the 
> right locale is installed for the language code you have configured 
> (en-GB). (Its hard at the moment to give the exact error 
> message because 
> it's on another machine and that filesystem has just died so 
> I'll have 
> to rebuild it before I can reproduce the error). Is there 
> some package I 
> need to install inside the chroot?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> andy baxter

You need the "locales" package, which may not be automatically installed by
debootstrap.  If it is installed, simply running "dpkg-reconfigure locales"
should be enough to make the messages go away.

Hope this helps!
-- Kevin