Error : Cannot set locale to "

[minthaka]

This is the message I'm getting often in VLC and similar apps since I've downloaded VLC, Mplayer and Xine via Synaptic.
What is the problem and how could I resolve it ?
Thank's

[minthaka]

I cannot add LANGUAGE to locales. Help!
I'm getting error:
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory

[Vergil83]

try running

dpkg-reconfigure locales

and choose a language type

[minthaka]

I opened konsole, did SU and dpkg-reconfigure locales, but I wasn't asked for any languages. I'm always getting a perl error :

"perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = "en_US",
LANG = "en_US"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory"

How can I fix this ?
I've already installed all en_US concerned packages and localesconfs, but with no success.

[Vergil83]

Try installing localeconf. It should ask you which locale you want.

[minthaka]

I've tried, but still the same old message.
I've installed Mepis on an other PC, and I realized that problems are starting with Inkscape and Gimp installations, when the system removes

g++
g++-3.3
g++-4.0
libc6-dev
libexpat1-dev
libjpeg62-dev
libstdc++5-3.3-dev
libstdc++6-4.0-dev
libungif4-dev

and after that it removes linux-kernel-headers also.

What to do?

[Vergil83]

try editing your

/etc/environment

For me it looks like

LANG="en_US"
LANGUAGE="en_US:en_GB:en"

[cloudsea]

Try this:
export LC_ALL=C

[cloudsea]

LANGUAGE=en
LC_ALL=C
LC_CTYPE=C
LC_MESSANGES=C
LANG=en_US.UTF-8

[wonderboy07]

After two hours of googling, this has finally solved a problem which had been a minor annoyance for some time until today when I needed to apt-get an important program. Just wanted to say THANK YOU!!!!!