locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory locale

Question

I've bought a new laptop DELL Inspiron i3 5th gen 3000 series. On my first login, even before restarting, I tried to apply updates and I got the error

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

It was so nagging to see this because I was using a Compaq laptop earlier and I had the same error, which I could never fix.

Solution 1

Insert into /etc/default/locale:

LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"

And regarding the missing locales, to generate them: sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales

Solution 2

This one worked for me.

sudo -i
locale
export LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8; export LANG=en_US.UTF-8; export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8; locale-gen en_US.UTF-8
dpkg-reconfigure locales
reboot

Comments

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

Did you install Ubuntu yourself or was it pre-installed? Anyway, can you please open a terminal window, run the locale command, and show us the complete output by editing your question.

[Admin]

Rather than commenting, edit your post to add the information.

[Galvani]

willdo next time