Setting locales on Debian

Fred White

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Aug 5, 2013, 5:50:02 PM8/5/13

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Hello List,

I have to following errors
-bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_GB.utf8)
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_COLLATE to default locale: No such file or directory
C
POSIX

but when I do # locale-gen
-bash: locale-gen: command not found.

Now it seems that I cannot install the locale-gen but locale is install
/# dpkg -l locales
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
|
Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-====================================-====================================-========================================================================================
rc locales 2.11.3-4 Embedded GNU C Library:
National Language (locale) data [support]

Any solutions

Thanks

Fred

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Claudius Hubig

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Aug 5, 2013, 7:40:02 PM8/5/13

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Dear Fred,

Fred White wrote:
> I have to following errors
> -bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_GB.utf8)
> 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_COLLATE to default locale: No such file or directory
> C
> POSIX

Normally, this would be a case of

# dpkg-reconfigure locales

However,

> rc locales 2.11.3-4 Embedded GNU C Library: […]

indicates that for some reason, locales is not installed on your
computer (rc means removed, but configuration files left). Try to
install it (apt-get install locales) and then configure it to your
wishes.

Best,

Claudius
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Slavko

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Aug 6, 2013, 5:40:01 AM8/6/13

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Hi,

Dňa 05.08.2013 23:45 Fred White wrote / napísal(a):

> I have to following errors
> -bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_GB.utf8)
> 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_COLLATE to default locale: No such file or directory
> C
> POSIX

have you installed the en-GB locales? Something similar happens to me,
when i had installed only sk-SK locales.

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Bob Proulx

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Aug 6, 2013, 4:20:02 PM8/6/13

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Claudius Hubig wrote:
> Fred White wrote:
> > I have to following errors
> > -bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_GB.utf8)
> > 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_COLLATE to default locale: No such file or directory
> > C
> > POSIX
>
> Normally, this would be a case of
>
> # dpkg-reconfigure locales
>
> However,
>
> > rc locales 2.11.3-4 Embedded GNU C Library: […]
>
> indicates that for some reason, locales is not installed on your
> computer (rc means removed, but configuration files left). Try to
> install it (apt-get install locales) and then configure it to your
> wishes.

Agreed. Alternatively you could disable locales by setting LC_ALL=C
or unseting LANG. Because in order to have the error of being unable
to set the locale then you probably have either LANG=en_GB.utf8 or
LC_ALL=en_GB.utf8 set in your environment. And as described above
that can't work if the locales are not installed.

Bob

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