Missing locale

[memius]

I'm unable to set my locale to no_NO.UTF-8.

I'm on a box running ubuntu 10.04, installed trough unetbootin yesterday. I have run

sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude safe-upgrade

The output of

locale

is

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
LANG=no_NO.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="no_NO.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="no_NO.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="no_NO.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="no_NO.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="no_NO.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="no_NO.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="no_NO.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="no_NO.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="no_NO.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="no_NO.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="no_NO.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="no_NO.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

Output of

locale -a

is

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_COLLATE to default locale: No such file or directory
C
POSIX
en_AG
en_AU.utf8
en_BW.utf8
en_CA.utf8
en_DK.utf8
en_GB.utf8
en_HK.utf8
en_IE.utf8
en_IN
en_NG
en_NZ.utf8
en_PH.utf8
en_SG.utf8
en_US.utf8
en_ZA.utf8
en_ZW.utf8

Notice the lack of no_NO in that list.

Output of

cat /etc/locale.gen

is

# /etc/locale.gen: list all of the locales you want to have on your system
#
# The format of each line:
# <locale> <charmap>
#
# Where <locale> is a locale located in /usr/share/i18n/locales/ and
# where <charmap> is a charmap located in /usr/share/i18n/charmaps/.
#
# All blank lines and lines starting with # are ignored.
#
# For the default list of supported combinations, see the file:
# /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED
#
# Whenever glibc is emerged, the locales listed here will be automatically
# rebuilt for you. After updating this file, you can simply run `locale-gen`
# yourself instead of re-emerging glibc.
#en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
LANG=no_NO.UTF-8 UTF-8

I have also tried it with the last line reading

no_NO.UTF-8 UTF-8

Output of

sudo locale-gen

is

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_ZW.UTF-8... up-to-date
no_NO.UTF-8... cannot open locale definition file `no_NO': No such file or directory
failed
no_NO.utf-8... character map file `utf-8' not found: No such file or directory
cannot open locale definition file `no_NO': No such file or directory
failed
Generation complete.

while

 sudo locale-gen no_NO.UTF-8

yields no output.

[memius]

Sorry to bother you all with this. The answer stared me in the face after I posted; the file mentioned in /etc/locale.gen (/usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED) does not mention no_NO, but nb_NO and nn_NO, the two variants of written norwegian. I simply substituted nb for no, and all was well.