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funkmuscle

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Registered: 2006-02-09

Posts: 534

bsdtar: Failed to set default locale[SOLVED]

can someone tell me what this means?
everytime I try to build a package, I get: bsdtar: Failed to set default locale

how do I resolve this?
Thanx..

Last edited by funkmuscle (2008-12-29 18:47:03)

Allan

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Registered: 2007-06-09

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Re: bsdtar: Failed to set default locale[SOLVED]

Have got you your locales set up correctly?  http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Locale

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funkmuscle

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Registered: 2006-02-09

Posts: 534

Re: bsdtar: Failed to set default locale[SOLVED]

worked thanx to the link Allan.
I edited /etc/locale.gen
to enable
en_US.UTF8    UTF-8
en_US  ISO-8859-1
then I ran
sudo locale-gen

Thanx again

delboy83uk

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Registered: 2011-12-25

Posts: 8

Re: bsdtar: Failed to set default locale[SOLVED]

Sorry to dig up such an ancient post but I'm having a nightmare here. I've set up my locale if i run locale-gen i get this

Generating locales...
  en_GB.UTF-8... done
  en_GB.ISO-8859-1... done
  en_US.UTF-8... done
  en_US.ISO-8859-1... done
Generation complete.

However whenever I try to install from the AUR i still get the  bsdtar: Failed to set default locale error. It's driving me crazy!

Thanks in advance

Craig

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: bsdtar: Failed to set default locale[SOLVED]

delboy83uk, please uncomment C locale, run locale-gen and try again. If you still have problems, please open a new thread.

fsckd

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Registered: 2009-06-15

Posts: 4,173

Re: bsdtar: Failed to set default locale[SOLVED]

delboy83uk, welcome to the forums. We have a rule against necro-bumping and prefer you to start a new thread. Please do read all of our forum rules. Thank you.
Closing.

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