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Fixing perl: warning: Setting locale failed
When receiving this error:
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = "en_US:en",
LC_ALL = (unset),
LC_MONETARY = "de_DE.utf-8",
LC_NUMERIC = "de_DE.utf-8",
LC_MESSAGES = "de_DE.utf-8",
LC_COLLATE = "de_DE.utf-8",
LC_CTYPE = "de_DE.utf-8",
LC_TIME = "de_DE.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_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
Try to generate the locales specified in the error message. In this case, the de_DE.utf-8 can't be generated but de_DE.UTF-8 does work.
# locale-gen de_DE.UTF-8
Generating locales...
de_DE.UTF-8... done
Generation complete.
# dpkg-reconfigure locales
Generating locales...
de_DE.UTF-8... up-to-date
en_AG.UTF-8... done
en_AU.UTF-8... done
en_BW.UTF-8... done
en_CA.UTF-8... done
en_DK.UTF-8... done
en_GB.UTF-8... done
en_HK.UTF-8... done
en_IE.UTF-8... done
en_IN.UTF-8... done
en_NG.UTF-8... done
en_NZ.UTF-8... done
en_PH.UTF-8... done
en_SG.UTF-8... done
en_US.ISO-8859-1... done
en_US.UTF-8... done
en_ZA.UTF-8... done
en_ZM.UTF-8... done
en_ZW.UTF-8... done
Generation complete.