I just bought a VPS and I'm playing it it using SSH.
After a few software packages installations I saw that I had a problem with locales (I need to have en_US.UTF-8 but I have Latin1. I googled it but even after I think I've changed locales then they keep returning to the original ones and I still get problems with software installation.
So, I get:
root@myname:~# locale
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
LANG=pt_PT.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE="pt_PT.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="pt_PT.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="pt_PT.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="pt_PT.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="pt_PT.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="pt_PT.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="pt_PT.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="pt_PT.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="pt_PT.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="pt_PT.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="pt_PT.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="pt_PT.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
But before, I have done:
locale-gen en_US.UTF-8
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
export LANGUAGE=en_US:en
export LS_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
So, I can I solve this forever?
PS: I'm doing all this using SSH.
That's because my locale in my local machine is set to Portuguese, which SSH forwards to and tries to use on the server, but the server does not have it installed.
I could have stopped forwarding the locale environment variable from my local machine to the server. To do that I would have commented the SendEnv LANG LC_* line in the local /etc/ssh/ssh_config file.
Instead I decided to:
1) Generate the locale - Generate the English locale on the server with sudo locale-gen en_US.UTF-8
2) Stop accepting locale environment variable from my local machine to the server. To do that I commented the AcceptEnv LANG LC_* line in the remote /etc/ssh/sshd_config file. Note that for this I had to install the nano package to edit the file (after sudo apt-get install nano I just did nano filename when I was in the file directory).
3) Set the server locale to English - by adding the following lines to my remote ~/.bashrc or ~/.profile files using nano filename again (don't forget they are hidden files inside your home directory so they won't appear in a simple ls search; you need to use ls -la command):
export LANGUAGE="en"
export LANG="C"
export LC_MESSAGES="C"
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
export LANGUAGE=en_US:en
export LS_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
I also restarted the VM and before that I closed my SSH session and reenter to see if changes were working.