Missing locale

If you have an error reporting that the selected locale is missing, like I did, you can fix it with the following commands.

I had this kind of error recurring on some actions (like at VNC server start), it didn't block anything, but was annoying.


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

Type:

Code:

locale

and find your locale:

Code:

LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE="it_IT.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="it_IT.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="it_IT.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="it_IT.UTF-8"
...

then type: sudo locale-gen <your locale>
in my case:

Code:

sudo locale-gen it_IT.UTF-8

then

Code:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales

That should be all.
Source: http://askubuntu.com/questions/162391/how-do-i-fix-my-locale-issue

UDOO rocks.

 

Thanks, nice tip there.

I just hope people use the search if they have this issue.

 

This did the trick for me on Ubuntu 12.04 v2:

apt-get install language-pack-en export LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
locale-gen en_US.UTF-8
dpkg-reconfigure locales

 

As a third alternative, this worked for me:
sudo apt-get install --reinstall language-pack-en

. I don't know if I needed the sudo
. I don't know if you need to choose the pack for your own language. It seemed to install a lot of languages other than english for me.