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TheSaint

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Registered: 2007-08-19

Posts: 1,536

[Solved] Locales difficulties to solve

Hello folks,
I got the glibc update and I saw this warning

Generating locales...
  en_US.UTF-8... done
  it_IT.UTF-8...[error] cannot open locale definition file `it_IT': No such file or directory

I searched for an answer, but my situation is not solving with same options for my locale.

ls /usr/share/i18n/locales/it*
ls: cannot access '/usr/share/i18n/locales/it*': No such file or directory

The system localization is set to

cat /etc/locale.conf 
LANG="it_IT.UTF-8"

So in order to solve the mess, how do I revert to an installation condition?

Last edited by TheSaint (2023-08-06 16:23:10)

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Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 13,727

Re: [Solved] Locales difficulties to solve

Do you have anything in NoExtract in pacman.conf? Did you run out of disk space? Are you using bleachbit or anything to 'clean' things?

TheSaint

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Registered: 2007-08-19

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Re: [Solved] Locales difficulties to solve

Do you have anything in NoExtract in pacman.conf?

I think you spotted the flaw

$ grep NoExtract /etc/pacman.conf
#NoExtract   =
NoExtract = usr/share/locale/* usr/share/X11/locale/*/* usr/share/i18n/locales/* opt/google/chrome/locales/* !usr/share/X11/locale/C/*
NoExtract = !usr/share/X11/locale/compose.dir !usr/share/X11/locale/iso8859-1/*
NoExtract = !*locale*/en*/* !usr/share/*locale*/locale.*
NoExtract = !usr/share/*locales/en_?? !usr/share/*locales/i18n* !usr/share/*locales/iso*
NoExtract = usr/share/i18n/charmaps/* !usr/share/i18n/charmaps/UTF-8.gz !usr/share/i18n/charmaps/ANSI_X3.4-1968.gz
NoExtract = !usr/share/*locales/trans*
NoExtract = !usr/share/*locales/C !usr/share/*locales/POSIX
NoExtract = usr/share/man/* !usr/share/man/man*

Would you help me to find the culprit?

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V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,237

Re: [Solved] Locales difficulties to solve

You need to add a variation of it wherever there's an en so

!*locale*/it*/*
!usr/share/*locales/it_??

TheSaint

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Registered: 2007-08-19

Posts: 1,536

Re: [Solved] Locales difficulties to solve

Thank you both, the added line allows to preserve the localization of my interest.

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