Tag: lc_all

TODO: Cannot set LC_CTYPE/LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory

Cannot set LC_CTYPE/LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory

Error description

Below error repeatly appears when run apt upgrade.

perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
    LANGUAGE = (unset),
    LC_ALL = (unset),
    LC_CTYPE = "UTF-8",
    LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to a fallback locale ("en_US.UTF-8").
Scanning processes...
Scanning candidates...
Scanning linux images...
/usr/bin/locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory

Check /etc/default/locale file,

#  File generated by update-locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8

it doesn't contain following lines

LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"

Tried but failed

Tried to run following commands, the errors are still there.

locale-gen "en_US.UTF-8"
dpkg-reconfigure locales

Also added following lines in /etc/environment and /etc/default/locale, still failed

LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
LANG=en_US.UTF-8