Mar
11
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
I got the following errors when running apt-get update on my rackspace cloud ubuntu servers:
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").
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
The fix, though simple, was a bit difficult to find. For those with the same problem, here’s what it takes to fix it:
sudo locale-gen en_US.UTF-8
sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
