"Can't set locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct!"
Posted: Sat Dec 23, 2017 7:56 pm
[PROBLEM]
On Debian Jessie (8.6), whenever I want to install any new package (using "apt-get"), I get the following warning about my locale settings obviously being quirky.
Output is:
[SOLUTION]
In fact, after checking "/etc/locale.gen", I realized that I didn't have "de_AT.UTF-8" installed.
Run the following and check every locale that you're going to use:
$ dpkg-reconfigure locales
After hitting "<Ok>", the locales will be (re-)generated and then everything's back to normal
On Debian Jessie (8.6), whenever I want to install any new package (using "apt-get"), I get the following warning about my locale settings obviously being quirky.
I've checked the current values of the related envvars:Can't set locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct!
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = "en_US:en",
LC_ALL = (unset),
LC_TIME = "de_AT.UTF-8",
LC_MONETARY = "de_AT.UTF-8",
LC_ADDRESS = "de_AT.UTF-8",
LC_TELEPHONE = "de_AT.UTF-8",
LC_NAME = "de_AT.UTF-8",
LC_MEASUREMENT = "de_AT.UTF-8",
LC_IDENTIFICATION = "de_AT.UTF-8",
LC_NUMERIC = "de_AT.UTF-8",
LC_PAPER = "de_AT.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_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
Code: Select all
$ env | grep 'LC\|LANG' | sortLANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
LC_ADDRESS=de_AT.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=de_AT.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=de_AT.UTF-8
LC_MONETARY=de_AT.UTF-8
LC_NAME=de_AT.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC=de_AT.UTF-8
LC_PAPER=de_AT.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=de_AT.UTF-8
LC_TIME=de_AT.UTF-8
[SOLUTION]
In fact, after checking "/etc/locale.gen", I realized that I didn't have "de_AT.UTF-8" installed.
Run the following and check every locale that you're going to use:
$ dpkg-reconfigure locales
After hitting "<Ok>", the locales will be (re-)generated and then everything's back to normal