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debian updating perl locale error

If you have errors like —>

PROBLEM (ERRORS):
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LC_CTYPE = “UTF-8”,
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_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory

….while updating with aptitude update ; aptitude safe-upgrade then the solution to you problem is –>

SOLUTION:

# 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

alo

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4 responses to “debian updating perl locale error”

  1. I had similar problems, to the point where I couldn’t run deluge( torrent client). It terminated with the error : “locale::facet::_S_create_c_locale name not valid”.
    I tried your export suggestion, but it was not enough. After a lot of fruitless mucking around, I examined my /etc/default/locale file & noticed that LANG was defined as “en_GB.UTF-8:en” – so I changed that to just the UTF-8 locale. Lo! & Behold – deluge is fine & no more errors. I think it may have been caused by a dodgy update script, as its only just happened today.
    I must also say “Roll on, Gnome-Shell 3.2 for Wheezy”, because right now in Wheezy we’ve got Gnome 3 sans extensions, which must be the worst of both worlds

  2. hi very green in the linux world, am i right in thinking that Debian updates itself periodically whereas Ubuntu rolls out new distros every 6 months or so…any help would be appreciated thank you
    Mark

  3. Yes and no. 🙂
    Debian stable “updates” every 2-3 years, which is OK for servers. Ubuntu LTS (long term support) which uses the same source (debian stable) updates every 2 years.
    Ubuntu “latest version” updates every 6 months and uses debian testing and debian unstable for source. Which is good for desktop computing.

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