Setting the Perl Locale

Many a time when some software was being installed/upgraded a warning used to come up involving perl. The warning said that the locale variable couldn’t be set up and it had to reset the locale to the default “C”. My locale was set to en_IN. Seems that many applications didn’t support the India locale and I had to change to US or GB locales. How did I do this?, follow these steps.

First check if the locales packages are indeed installed by firing in the following command.
$ sudo apt-get install locales localeconf

Once the locales packages are installed, you can install specific language packs. I installed the English pack using this command.
$ sudo apt-get install language-pack-en

In case you had a problem like me where you couldnt use your locale and had to change your locale to something else then you could use this command.
$ sudo locale-gen en_US.UTF-8

Here, you are specifying that the locale is set in the UTF format. This is the most compatible format and it is generally preferred that you set up your locales in this format unless otherwise mentioned.