Ever since installing Sarge last month I've been plagued with these
locale error messages from perl apps like mandb & syslogd-listfiles.

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_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory

or

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

This when LANG, LANGUAGE & LC_ALL are indeed set as shown above
in the environment.

mike@deb31:~> echo $LANG $LANGUAGE $LC_ALL
en_US en_US:en_GB:en en_US

I finally got this to go away using the following steps:
mike@deb31:~> dpkg -P localepurge
mike@deb31:~> apt-get install locales localeconf
after configuration,
mike@deb31:~/tmp> cp /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive .
mike@deb31:~> dpkg -P locales localeconf
mike@deb31:~/tmp> md /usr/lib/locale/
mike@deb31:~/tmp> mv locale-archive /usr/lib/locale/
mike@deb31:~> apt-get install localepurge

I'm sure I took the long route and hope one of you can tell me what the
easy way would have been.

TIA,
Mike


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On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 11:41:56AM -0800, Mike McClain wrote:
> Ever since installing Sarge last month I've been plagued with these
> locale error messages from perl apps like mandb & syslogd-listfiles.
>
> 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_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
>
>
> I finally got this to go away using the following steps:
> mike@deb31:~> dpkg -P localepurge
> mike@deb31:~> apt-get install locales localeconf
> after configuration,
> mike@deb31:~/tmp> cp /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive .
> mike@deb31:~> dpkg -P locales localeconf
> mike@deb31:~/tmp> md /usr/lib/locale/
> mike@deb31:~/tmp> mv locale-archive /usr/lib/locale/
> mike@deb31:~> apt-get install localepurge
>
> I'm sure I took the long route and hope one of you can tell me what the
> easy way would have been.

the easy way would have been to just install locales, if not
installed, or just dpkg-reconfigure locales if it was installed. And
then you could have dpkg-reconfigured localepurge and make sure you
selected one of your generated locales to *keep*. So, not really any
easier, I guess.

A

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