[Gllug] perl / debian help :-)

[Rob Andrews]

[Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 06:17:21AM -0400] SteveC whispered thus:
 > Having installed ximian on a debian potato box, perl now complains as
 > below. I found some messages on google about /usr/share/locale/ but I
 > can't figure out what to do. the @INC thing also baffles me. TeX also
 > seems to be broken, complaing of lots of things.
 > perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
 > 	LANGUAGE = (unset),
 > 	LC_ALL = (unset),
 > 	LANG = "english"
 >     are supported and installed on your system.
 > perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").

The problem is most likely something to do with the fact that you're logging
in using gdm now - and as a consequence, gdm is being intelligent and
setting your LANG environment as "english". Go log into a console - chances
are (unless you've got some foreign locales installed) that your LANG
variable is "C".

Go back to gdm, set the language in the menu to "C", log in, gdm will ask
you if you want to store that language setting, then it'll log you in as
usual and perl won't complain any more.

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