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My Dropbox installation on my linode is failing with the error:

ValueError: unknown locale: UTF-8

When I run :

locale

I get the output:

locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LANGUAGE= LC_CTYPE=UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL=

So it seems that the LC_CTYPE and LC_ALL settings are incorrect. How do I fix them ? I have tried:

sudo update-locale LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8

output:

perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = (unset), LC_ALL = (unset), LC_CTYPE = "UTF-8", LANG = "en_US.UTF-8" are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").

Any idea how to fix this ?

EDIT: I have also tried this:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales

output:

perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = (unset), LC_ALL = (unset), LC_CTYPE = "UTF-8", LANG = "en_US.UTF-8" are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C"). locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory Generating locales... en_AG.UTF-8... up-to-date en_AU.UTF-8... up-to-date en_BW.UTF-8... up-to-date en_CA.UTF-8... up-to-date en_DK.UTF-8... up-to-date en_GB.UTF-8... up-to-date en_HK.UTF-8... up-to-date en_IE.UTF-8... up-to-date en_IN.UTF-8... up-to-date en_NG.UTF-8... up-to-date en_NZ.UTF-8... up-to-date en_PH.UTF-8... up-to-date en_SG.UTF-8... up-to-date en_US.UTF-8... up-to-date en_ZA.UTF-8... up-to-date en_ZM.UTF-8... up-to-date en_ZW.UTF-8... up-to-date Generation complete.

Doing the following seems to make it work. But I how can I make it permanent? I did:

export LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
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The following worked for me on Ubuntu 14.04 (VPS @ Linode):

Edit /etc/environment and add the following line: 

LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"

Note: pay attention to the exact error. Ensure the language (in question) has been generated correctly and set: /etc/default/locale accordingly.

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I tried this and it worked for me.

I added to the end of /etc/default/locale the following line:

LC_ALL="es_CL.UTF-8"

To replicate the error try using perl: type perl in the command line and your error should appear (to quit perl press CTRL+C). Then change the file, logout (exit command) and then login again; now try typing perl and the error should be gone.

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