LinuxQuestions.org - "perl: warning: Setting locale failed." System wide problem

Hello there! I am new to this forum, and new to Linux. I recently installed and configured Debian 3.1 I must have spent a week googleling and searching this forum for the many questions I had. :)
I was successful in almost all of my issues, however one has been plaguing me.

In an attempt to update my Nvidia drivers (after 3 days I successfully did so) I fooled around with the m-a package that one website had a HOW-TO on, and I think I messed something up because I remember them asking me a question about a locale setting

The problem is whenever I run apt-get I get these error messages. Whatever I am installing or removing does so without any issues, however just now I tried to run Cedega and it is giving me similar errors, and not letting me start the application!

I am running Debian 3.1 Sarge (stable) with the 2.6.8-2-386 kernell

Here is my apt-get errors

Code:



debian:/home/spaten# apt-get install acm

Reading Package Lists... Done

Building Dependency Tree... Done

The following NEW packages will be installed:

  acm

0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Need to get 0B/541kB of archives.

After unpacking 1208kB of additional disk space will be used.

perl: warning: Setting locale failed.

perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:

        LANGUAGE = "en_US:en_GB:en",

        LC_ALL = (unset),

        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 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

Selecting previously deselected package acm.

(Reading database ... 108973 files and directories currently installed.)

Unpacking acm (from .../main/a/acm/acm_5.0-19_i386.deb) ...

Setting up acm (5.0-19) ..

.

and here is my Cedega errors

Code:

spaten@debian:~$ cedega

(Point2Play_gui.py:13732): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.

        Using the fallback 'C' locale.

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/usr/lib/transgaming_cedega/Point2Play_gui.py", line 40, in ?

    locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '')

  File "/usr/lib/transgaming_cedega/lib/python2.3/locale.py", line 381, in setlocale

    return _setlocale(category, locale)

locale.Error: locale setting not supported

spaten@debian:~$

If I attempt to do dpkg-reconfigure locales I get this

Code:

debian:/home/spaten# dpkg-reconfigure locales

perl: warning: Setting locale failed.

perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:

        LANGUAGE = "en_US:en_GB:en",

        LC_ALL = (unset),

        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 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

/usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: locales is broken or not fully installed

debian:/home/spaten#

Thank you, this website has been wonderful
Darek

And one last quick question, by accident I overwrote my sources.list file, and I do not know the original, Debian installed sources. I am running from a CD-rom, and currently have a sources.list with only the CD-Rom, no offical Debian security update sources!