Kurt Dresner wrote:
> perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
> perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
> LANGUAGE = (unset),
> LC_ALL = (unset),
> LANG = "english"
> are supported and installed on your system.
> perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
>
>
> I get this message about umpteen billion times while updating and installing
> in dselect. How can I remedy it? I'm running Sid.
If you're running gdm, next time you log in, look on the Languages menu
(or Locales? I don't see it often enough to remember exactly) and choose
the C locale.
Or, if you want to keep "english", then go into /usr/lib/locale and add
a symlink:
ln -s en_US english
which will force "english" to be synonymous with "en_US".
Alternatively, and perhaps a better solution, you might figure out how
to tell gdm to set the locale as "en_US" instead of "english".
I had this same problem a week or two back when gdm was upgraded in sid.
The symlink made "english" work for me without all those annoying
complaints from perl, but then I realized it was gdm that was causing
the problem, so I told it to use the "C" locale and now all is well.
Craig
