Locale errors

fitur · Dec 27th 2016

Hi,
I was attempting to download PlexRequests and set it up for autostart when I came across this error message:

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perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
	LANGUAGE = "en_US:en",
	LC_ALL = (unset),
	LC_CTYPE = "UTF-8",
	LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to a fallback locale ("en_US.UTF-8").

AFAIK, I haven't done anything to modify locales prior to this error message.
After Googling around I attempted:

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sudo locale-gen "en_US.UTF-8"
sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales

Which generates the following error message:

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perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
	LANGUAGE = "en_US:en",
	LC_ALL = (unset),
	LC_CTYPE = "UTF-8",
	LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to a fallback locale ("en_US.UTF-8").
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
Generating locales (this might take a while)...
  en_US.UTF-8... done
Generation complete.
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
	LANGUAGE = "en_US:en",
	LC_ALL = (unset),
	LC_CTYPE = "UTF-8",
	LANG = "C"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
	LANGUAGE = "en_US:en",
	LC_ALL = (unset),
	LC_CTYPE = "UTF-8",
	LANG = "C"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").

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What am I doing wrong here?

Dropkick Murphy · Dec 27th 2016

sudo? This is not Ubuntu...
Are you root?

fitur · Dec 27th 2016

Quote from Dropkick Murphy

sudo? This is not Ubuntu...
Are you root?

Sorry. Copy-Paste from how-to page.
Yes. attempting this as root

esbeeb · Dec 5th 2018

I too am having this same problem. Running the command, as root, "dpkg-reconfigure locales" is supposed to be the normal way to fix this, but I just get error messages, no matter what I do, and the locale remains broken.

I'm trying to set the default locale to "en_US.UTF-8", BTW. Nothing fancy.

macom · Dec 5th 2018

https://libre-software.net/ubuntu-setting-locale/

As far as I remember this worked for me.

esbeeb · Dec 14th 2018

Thanks so much, @macom, that workaround worked for me.

macom · Dec 14th 2018

Glad it worked for you

orrpan · Apr 29th 2019

sudo apt-get install --reinstall locales
sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
# select en_US.UTF-8 and C.UTF-8
# get the error
sudo locale-gen en_US.UTF-8
sudo locale-gen --no-purge --lang en_US.UTF-8
sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales

worked for me

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