Hi,
On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 07:11:24 -0400, Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm trying to install/configure a notebook from the debian-installer and
> testing/unstable branches.
>
> I've not selected 'tasksel' in the installation process.
>
> Now, every time that I attempt to run apt-get or many other things I get
> hammered with these errors:
>
> perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
> perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
> LANGUAGE = (unset),
> LC_ALL = (unset),
> LC_CTYPE = "en_US.UTF-8",
> LANG = (unset)
> are supported and installed on your system.
> perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
>
> And then I'm left with dozens of broken packages.
I don't think the breakage is from the locale problems. I used to have
stuff like this and installing worked great.
>
> I ran into this about two months ago on another box and have no real
> clue what I did to get it working again. But localedef and locales
> doesn't seem to help anything at all. My /etc/locale.gen only contains
> en_US ISO-8859-1
>
> During the installation of (IIRC) xserver-xfree86 I was asked about
> locales and at the time I selected only the en_UTF8. I'm not sure about
> this package since installing this generally comes with a groundswell of
> other packages as well.
>
Try dpkg-reconfigure -plow locales and see what it asks you. Locales
configuring sometimes seems to break for strange reasons it seems.
greets,
Wim
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