====== Locale ====== = Changing / Fixing the System Locale = If you are "apt-get upgrade" etc. and you get something similar to this error: perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = "en_US:en_GB:en", LC_ALL = (unset), LANG = "en" 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 Here is what you need to do: apt-get remove locales apt-get install locales dpkg-reconfigure locales Hope it works out ok. More info at: http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/debian-linux-help/58751-locale-problem.html