Ubuntu
localechooser package

locale.gen

Asked by Er Ka Wei

kawei@TimeX:~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
Generating locales...
  en_AG.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_AU.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_BW.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_CA.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_DK.UTF-8... /usr/sbin/locale-gen: line 236: localedef: command not found
failed
  en_GB.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_HK.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_IE.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_IN.UTF-8... /usr/sbin/locale-gen: line 236: localedef: command not found
failed
  en_NG.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_NZ.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_PH.UTF-8... /usr/sbin/locale-gen: line 236: localedef: command not found
failed
  en_SG.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_US.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_ZA.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_ZM.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_ZW.UTF-8... up-to-date
Generation complete.

Anyway to solve the problem? Thanks in advance.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

I suggest you report a bug

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#2

localedef should be provided by libc-bin

Try

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --reinstall libc-bin

and then again

sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales

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Er Ka Wei (kwwei) said : 		#3

Generating locales...
  en_AG.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_AU.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_BW.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_CA.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_DK.UTF-8... cannot open locale definition file `da_DK': No such file or directory
failed
  en_GB.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_HK.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_IE.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_IN.UTF-8... cannot open locale definition file `hi_IN': No such file or directory
failed
  en_NG.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_NZ.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_PH.UTF-8... cannot open locale definition file `tl_PH': No such file or directory
failed
  en_SG.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_US.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_ZA.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_ZM.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_ZW.UTF-8... up-to-date
Generation complete.

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Best Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#4

Try

sudo apt-get install --reinstall locales

and then again

sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales

and please copy/paste all output as response into this question document (including the output of the apt-get command).

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Er Ka Wei (kwwei) said : 		#5

done by reinstalling locales using Muon Package Manager.

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Er Ka Wei (kwwei) said : 		#6

Thanks Manfred Hampl, that solved my question.