On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 08:26:35PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > > Now the first question was "Please choose which locales to generate." > As it happens, I don't need to *generate* any, because I selected > en_US.UTF-8 at installation time.
*sigh* When you run dpkg-reconfigure locales, you are telling it which locales you want to HAVE ON YOUR SYSTEM. The whole set. All of them. If you previously generated en_US.UTF-8, and you'd like to KEEP IT, then you should select it (make sure it stays selected) when you run dpkg-reconfigure locales again. If the ONLY locale you want is en_US.UTF-8, then make sure that locale (and no other locale) is selected when you run dpkg-reconfigure locales. If you UNSELECT a locale that was previously selected, it will probably delete that locale. Maybe probably. 'Cause who the hell does that? I've never tested it. Why would I? It's a dumb thing to do.
