Upon logging in to a freshly launched Ubuntu 16.04 LTS instance from the Amazon Web Services, I encountered the following:
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_____________________________________________________________________ WARNING! Your environment specifies an invalid locale. The unknown environment variables are: LC_CTYPE=UTF-8 LC_ALL= This can affect your user experience significantly, including the ability to manage packages. You may install the locales by running: sudo apt-get install language-pack-UTF-8 or sudo locale-gen UTF-8 To see all available language packs, run: apt-cache search "^language-pack-[a-z][a-z]$" To disable this message for all users, run: sudo touch /var/lib/cloud/instance/locale-check.skip _____________________________________________________________________ |
Like what every good Geekysaur would do, the first thing I did was to install the corresponding language pack I need. You could do that by typing in sudo apt-get install language-pack-<language>. Replace <language> with your corresponding language code. So for example, if you wanted to install the English language pack, run sudo apt-get install language-pack-en.
Around the end of the output, you would see something like the following:
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Generating locales (this might take a while)... en_AG.UTF-8... done 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_NG.UTF-8... done en_NZ.UTF-8... done en_PH.UTF-8... done en_SG.UTF-8... done en_ZA.UTF-8... done en_ZM.UTF-8... done en_ZW.UTF-8... done Generation complete. |
Take note of the country code of the language you are trying to update to. For example, if you want to install English – Australia, the code is en_AU.UTF-8.
Now, with this code, modify your environment variables. You can do this by typing in sudo vim /etc/environment. Make sure NOT to remove ANY existing text here (e.g. PATH variables) and just add the following at the end:
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LC_ALL=en_AU.UTF-8 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8 |
Of course, make sure to replace the above with the corresponding country level language code you need. Afterwards, all you have to do is run sudo locale-gen "en_AU.UTF-8", again replacing the language code if needed, and you’re done!
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