Locale error

August 8, 2012

I had been getting an error on some Ubuntu servers when using apt:

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             

After some googling I found a solution:

localedef -v -c -i en_US -f UTF-8 en_US.UTF-8                                            

EDIT:  This occurs when I setup Ubuntu 12.04 servers using an openvz image that I downloaded (I don't remember from where).