debian locale: Cannot set LC

 If you get similar messages to this when you use apt-get

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"    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 directorylocale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directorylocale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory

and the advice to

dpkg-reconfigure locales

doesn’t work, then try this –

export LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8export LANG=en_US.UTF-8export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8locale-gen en_US.UTF-8dpkg-reconfigure locales

Short and sweet solution.

From:http://www.computersolutions.cn/blog/2011/11/debian-locales-error-quick-fix/