Hi
this maynot be apt errors but sure it is a command to use inorder to show the error, I am not sure why and how to fix it.

thanks

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fred:/home/sam# apt-get remove --purge apt-spy
...
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
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
(Reading database ... 32369 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing apt-spy ...
Purging configuration files for apt-spy ...

do an apt-get install locales and just follow the instruction. This is a bug related to perl.

#apt-get install 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
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 33248 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing base-config ...
Selecting previously deselected package locales.
(Reading database ... 33244 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking locales (from .../locales_2.3.6-3_all.deb) ...
Setting up locales (2.3.6-3) ...
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
Generating locales (this might take a while)...
en_US.ISO-8859-1... done
Generation complete.