The Vsido installlers and the non US users

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I guess all this would be irrelevant for US users, most of you I guess. But maybe I'm not the only non US resident suffering this issue with the Refracta installer.

As you surely know vsido has two different installers. That's cool. The new Refracta installer and the old one, the Remastersys installer still around by users request.

I prefer the Remastersys per se. but aside of features, options and personal preferences. Every time I use the Refracta installer I have issues with my locales and keyboard layout. It never gets right. But it's not a Vsido issue. It also happens in other distros using this installer like Makulu. I usually have to face the locales setup after the installation is complete, but sometimes it refuses to behave anyone. Currently I cannot set my locale to anything. I tried all the regular methods and some other tricks I've found in the web. No way. Nothing worked.

I constantly get messages like this:

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Can't set locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct!
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
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_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory

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/etc/lsb-release: line 1: Jedi: command not found
/bin/bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.utf8)
/etc/lsb-release: line 1: Jedi: command not found
/bin/bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.utf8)
/etc/lsb-release: line 1: Jedi: command not found
/bin/bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.utf8)
/etc/lsb-release: line 1: Jedi: command not found
/bin/bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.utf8)
/etc/lsb-release: line 1: Jedi: command not found

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bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.utf8)
root@vsido:/home/paco# env | grep LANG
LANG=en_US.utf8
GDM_LANG=en_US.utf8
LANGUAGE=en
root@vsido:/home/paco# export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
root@vsido:/home/paco# dpkg-reconfigure locales
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = "en",
LC_ALL = "en_US.utf8",
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_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
Generating locales (this might take a while)...
  en_US.UTF-8...cannot open locale definition file `en_US': No such file or directory
done
Generation complete.
*** update-locale: Error: invalid locale settings:  LANG=en_US.UTF-8


Any ideas on how to solve it?

So, for non US users, better use the Remastersys installer. Locales are properly set during the installation process and never had a problem. I swear every day since I decided to give the Refracta installer another go... Damnit!

[dizzie]

Do a reinstall locales. Worked for me, and I like my æøå so I had to


As for "Jedi" its a line in /etc/lsb_-release, you can change it, or ignore it.

[jedi]

Hey Snap!  Sorry for your troubles.  I've been compiling my own Kernels lately and have also ran into the

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/etc/lsb-release: line 1: Jedi: command not found error.  This is another of Debians nice little "feature additions" as I like to call all this idiocy thats been happening.  Simply open '/etc/lsb-release' with your "root" editor and change it from this;

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DISTRIB_ID=VSIDO Jedi x64
DISTRIB_RELEASE=jedi
DISTRIB_CODENAME=jedi
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="VSIDO"


to this;

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DISTRIB_ID=VSIDO
DISTRIB_RELEASE=jedi
DISTRIB_CODENAME=jedi
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="VSIDO"


Might fix your issue with the locales.  Of course you'd need to do this after the install to see if it would work.  So you'd need to know how to set the locales after the fact.  If you need more help don't hesitate to ask...

[VastOne]

I will fix this

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DISTRIB_ID=VSIDO Jedi x64

to this

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DISTRIB_ID=VSIDO_Jed_x64

Never seemed to be an issue before

[jedi]

Or maybe this?

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DISTRIB_ID="VSIDO Jed x64"

Linux hates spaces...

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Thanks, jedi. I've changed the lsb-release contents. Seems to behave now.

As for the locales the problem is still here. This seems to exactly my problem at first instance, but the proposed solutions didn't worked

https://www.thomas-krenn.com/en/wiki/Perl_warning_Setting_locale_failed_in_Debian

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root@vsido:/home/paco# locale-gen en_US.UTF-8
Generating locales (this might take a while)...
  en_US.UTF-8...cannot open locale definition file `en_US': No such file or directory
done
Generation complete.
root@vsido:/home/paco# localedef -i en_US -f UTF-8 en_US.UTF-8
cannot open locale definition file `en_US': No such file or directory
root@vsido:/home/paco# export LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
root@vsido:/home/paco# export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
root@vsido:/home/paco# export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8): No such file or directory
root@vsido:/home/paco# locale-gen en_US.UTF-8
Generating locales (this might take a while)...
  en_US.UTF-8...cannot open locale definition file `en_US': No such file or directory
done
Generation complete.
root@vsido:/home/paco# dpkg-reconfigure locales
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = "en_US.UTF-8",
LC_ALL = "en_US.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_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
Generating locales (this might take a while)...
  en_US.UTF-8...cannot open locale definition file `en_US': No such file or directory
done
Generation complete.
*** update-locale: Error: invalid locale settings:  LANG=en_US.UTF-8


I really don't know what happened this time. I always managed to fix it in the past...

I always use en_US in all my systems (many years before switching to Linux). It's easier for me this way. Better than using the typical crap es_ES translations apparently made by someone at the other side of the pond. It now feels natural to me.  Maybe the problem lies there. Setting a specific time zone and a keyboard layout but US English instead of the spected locales for the defined area... I really don't know. I'm tempeted to reinstall everything again using the other installer. Never an issue with this.

[hakerdefo]

Hi there Snap,
I think the solution to your problem is simple. Open '/etc/environment' in your favourite text editor as root. And add following lines to it,

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LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_TYPE=en_US.UTF-8

Save the file. Next open '/etc/bash.bashrc' file in text editor as root and add following lines to it,

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export LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
export LC_TYPE=en_US.UTF-8

save the file and run the following commands,

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sudo locale-gen en_US.UTF-8
sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales

Cheers!!!

[dizzie]

locale-gen how does it work exactly if the file(s) is/are missing?


Just reinstall the package "locale" and everything will work just fine!

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apt-get install --reinstall locales

[zephyr]

@dizzy@snap: Worked for me-thanks-zephyr

[dizzie]

Good stuff


and it's dizzie not dizzy

[Snap]

That did it here too. Thanks.

Anyway, borrowing the famous VastOne's conky phrase, replacing conky for Refracta installer.

[zephyr]

@dizzie: My most sincere apology, will have to keep that in check. Thanks again for the script.-zephyr