Recently I bumped in a Debian Lenny locales problem, on some amd64 cluster inside the cloud, during apt-get operations the system complains continuously about wrong or missing locales with messages like this:
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = “en_US.UTF-8″
are supported and installed on your system.
or like this:
manconv: can’t set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct
The issue was fixed using this method, reinstalling and regenerating the locales on the system, to avoid dependencies I used the following packages as a “bridge”:
~# apt-get install belocs-locales-bin belocs-locales-data
~# locale-gen
~# dpkg-reconfigure locales
After issuing the command dpkg-reconfigure locales select the locales you need from the list and you should be done.
