Tony Narlock » Slicehost http://blog.skiquel.com Living life in the cloud Sun, 06 Jun 2010 13:38:45 +0000 en hourly 1 Troubleshooting locales in the cloud on debian and ubuntu http://blog.skiquel.com/2010/03/troubleshooting-locales-in-the-cloud-on-debian-and-ubuntu/ http://blog.skiquel.com/2010/03/troubleshooting-locales-in-the-cloud-on-debian-and-ubuntu/#comments Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:52:21 +0000 Tony Narlock http://blog.skiquel.com/?p=503 If you use Amazon EC2 or Rackspace Cloud Servers, you may end up running into this after your create your instance. I often get these on Debian and Ubuntu (since it's debian based also).

lennycloud:~# perl
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").

You're missing locales.

Update your apt database. sudo apt-get update

Download locales. sudo apt-get install locales

Now configure it, and download what locales you need. dpkg-reconfigure locales on Debian. sudo locale-gen en_US.UTF-8 on Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04 (Note: on server, you may be logged in as root).

I pick en_US ISO-8859-1, en_US.ISO-8859-15 ISO-8859-15 and en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8.

And that solves it.

Updated April 03, 2010 to include locale-gen.

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