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dtandersen

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Registered: 2007-01-30

Posts: 41

Why wasn't my locale set?

I installed from my old Voodoo 0.8 CD and I noticed I was getting warnings about LC_CTYPE when I ran Subversion.  The line LOCALE="en_US.utf8" was in /etc/rc.conf.  After some googling I uncommented the appropriate lines for EN_US in /etc/locale.gen and ran locale-gen and now the errors are gone.  Did I miss something during installation?

Last edited by dtandersen (2007-10-03 20:21:37)

lucke

Member

From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

Posts: 4,018

Re: Why wasn't my locale set?

Apparently that way of handling locales was implemented after releasing Voodoo install cd. You probably overlooked pacman's post-upgrade notices when updating your system after installation.

tpowa

Developer

From: Lauingen , Germany

Registered: 2004-04-05

Posts: 2,328

Re: Why wasn't my locale set?

you can download i686 Isos here:
http://www.archlinux.org/~tpowa/rc-iso/686
you can download x86_64 Isos here:
http://www.archlinux.org/~tpowa/rc-iso/x86_64

for newer isos with less bugs

dtandersen

Member

Registered: 2007-01-30

Posts: 41

Re: Why wasn't my locale set?

I did a pacman -Syu so my system should be current now?  I was going to use the newest ISOs but I wanted to see pacman work its magic.

kishd

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Registered: 2006-06-14

Posts: 401

Re: Why wasn't my locale set?

Yes after a pacman -Syu the system is current. No need to download and install again.

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tpowa

Developer

From: Lauingen , Germany

Registered: 2004-04-05

Posts: 2,328

Re: Why wasn't my locale set?

edit /etc/locele.gen activate your locales and then rerun locale-gen