miss configured locales

[Nimda]

Hi guys any help on this one

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apt-get update

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Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Release
Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/contrib Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/contrib Release
Hit http://ftp.debian.org stable/main Packages
Hit http://ftp.debian.org stable/main Release
Hit http://ftp.debian.org stable/contrib Packages
Hit http://ftp.debian.org stable/contrib Release
Hit http://ftp.debian.org stable/non-free Packages
Hit http://ftp.debian.org stable/non-free Release
Reading Package Lists... Done

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apt-get - f install

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Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
        LANGUAGE = "en_GB:en_US:en_GB:en",
        LC_ALL = (unset),
        LANG = "en_GB"
    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
Setting up locales (2.3.2.ds1-22) ...
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
        LANGUAGE = "en_GB:en_US:en_GB:en",
        LC_ALL = (unset),
        LANG = "en_GB"
    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
/var/lib/dpkg/info/locales.postinst: line 53: /usr/sbin/locale-gen: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing locales (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 locales
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I get this error message when i try to install anything.

Any ideas, sugestions, p*?£s takes cos I'm out of ideas.

Thanks in advance

[Harold]

Try dpkg-reconfigure locales

[Nimda]

Hi Harold

Already treied this one, here is the results.

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 dpkg-reconfigure locales

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perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
        LANGUAGE = "en_GB:en_US:en_GB:en",
        LC_ALL = (unset),
        LANG = "en_GB"
    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

This does'nt seem to stop Debian working but it is well enoying.