I"m getting these pesky messages when I run certain commands (e.g.
apt-get) as root:

perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = "en_US.utf8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").

I am always mystified by this stuff. How can I fix those errors?



Thanks,

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On 06/26/11 at 11:17pm, Eric d'Halibut wrote:
> I"m getting these pesky messages when I run certain commands (e.g.
> apt-get) as root:
>
> perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
> perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
> LANGUAGE = (unset),
> LC_ALL = (unset),
> LANG = "en_US.utf8"
> are supported and installed on your system.
> perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
>
> I am always mystified by this stuff. How can I fix those errors?

try dpkg-reconfigure locales

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On 6/26/11, William Hopkins <we.hopkins@gmail.com> wrote:

> try dpkg-reconfigure locales

Thank you again. That command (above) clued me to the fact that the
packages 'locales' was not even installed. Who knew? <g>

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2011/6/27 Eric d'Halibut <eric.halibut@gmail.com>


On 6/26/11, William Hopkins <we.hopkins@gmail.com> wrote:



> try dpkg-reconfigure locales



Thank you again. That command (above) clued me to the fact that the

packages 'locales' was not even installed. Who knew?

That's sounds reasonable; actually, i think some programs/container use some environment variables different than standard LANG, so eventually add to /etc/default/locale the following lines:



LC_ALL=$LANG
LANGUAGE=$LANG

that worked for me

Pier Paolo.