Chris Green <[email protected]> wrote: > I have just installed the Debian 10.3 console image on a BBB an it has > a locale error:- > > root@beaglebone:~# locale > 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 > LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 > LANGUAGE= > LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 > LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8" > LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8" > LC_COLLATE=C > LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8" > LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8" > LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF-8" > LC_NAME="en_GB.UTF-8" > LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.UTF-8" > LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.UTF-8" > LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.UTF-8" > LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.UTF-8" > LC_ALL= > root@beaglebone:~# > > It looks as if locales are not correctly installed and the en_GB.UTF-8 > locale hasn't been generated. > > The command localefdef can't find the require character maps. > > What do I need to install/build, anyone know? > ... and the answer is one needs to install the locales package.
This is a bug IMHO, the locales package should always be installed, even on a 'console' device. Once you've installed locales you need to edit /etc/locale.gen and then run locale-gen. -- Chris Green ยท -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/sfsbeh-u332.ln1%40esprimo.zbmc.eu.
