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Setting Locale Failed

If there are some warnings regarding Locale like below when run the command,

  • Command 
$ dpkg-reconfigure locales
  • Result 
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
	LANGUAGE = (unset),
	LC_ALL = (unset),
	LANG = "en_AU.UTF-8"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
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


it can be fixed with the following instruction.


  • Command 
$ apt-get install --reinstall language-pack-en
  • Result 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  language-pack-en-base
Recommended packages:
  language-support-en
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  language-pack-en language-pack-en-base
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 12 not upgraded.
Need to get 265kB of archives.
After this operation, 2281kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main language-pack-en-base 1:8.04+20080415 [263kB]
Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main language-pack-en 1:8.04+20080415 [2038B]
Fetched 265kB in 0s (356kB/s)
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
        LANGUAGE = (unset),
        LC_ALL = (unset),
        LANG = "en_AU.UTF-8"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
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
Selecting previously deselected package language-pack-en-base.
(Reading database ... 9100 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking language-pack-en-base (from .../language-pack-en-base_1%3a8.04+20080415_all.deb)...
Selecting previously deselected package language-pack-en.
Unpacking language-pack-en (from .../language-pack-en_1%3a8.04+20080415_all.deb) ...
Setting up language-pack-en (1:8.04+20080415) ...
Setting up language-pack-en-base (1:8.04+20080415) ...
Generating locales...
  en_AU.UTF-8... done
  en_BW.UTF-8... done
  en_CA.UTF-8... done
  en_DK.UTF-8... done
  en_GB.UTF-8... done
  en_HK.UTF-8... done
  en_IE.UTF-8... done
  en_IN.UTF-8... done
  en_NZ.UTF-8... done
  en_PH.UTF-8... done
  en_SG.UTF-8... done
  en_US.UTF-8... done
  en_ZA.UTF-8... done
  en_ZW.UTF-8... done
Generation complete.


  • To check if it is solved, enter the command 
$ dpkg-reconfigure locales
  • Result 
Generating locales...
  en_AU.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_BW.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_CA.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_DK.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_GB.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_HK.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_IE.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_IN.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_NZ.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_PH.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_SG.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_US.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_ZA.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_ZW.UTF-8... up-to-date
Generation complete.
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