Missing en_US locale required for python
apt, debian, locale, python
Solution
try to add the 'utf8' bit as well;
import locale
locale.getlocale()
>>> (None, None)
locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'en_US.utf8')
>>> 'en_US.utf8'
locale.getlocale()
>>> ('en_US', 'UTF-8')
Problem
I'm not sure if this a good place to ask for help with this error. Somehow I seem not to have a locale on my Debian Linux system. Basically, I became aware of this when a python program I was trying to run executed the line `locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'en_US')`. I get the error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in File "runserver.py", line 4, in site = TarbellSite(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(file))) File "/home/brian/.virtualenvs/tarbell/src/flask-tarbell/tarbell/app.py", line 36, in init self.projects = self.load_projects() File "/home/brian/.virtualenvs/tarbell/src/flask-tarbell/tarbell/app.py", line 59, in load_projects project = imp.load_module(name, filename, pathname, description) File "/home/brian/Code/contrib/tarbell/base/config.py", line 28, in locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'en_US') File "/home/brian/.virtualenvs/tarbell/lib/python2.7/locale.py", line 547, in setlocale return _setlocale(category, locale) locale.Error: unsupported locale setting However, researching relevant extant questions on SO like this one, tells me to run `locale -a`, which yields: C C.UTF-8 en_US.utf8 POSIX So, it looks like US english IS in the locales on my system. What am I doing wrong? I am running into various other road blocks. `sudo apt-get install language-pack-en` according to a lot of places on the internet gets the english language pack. But apt complains that this package doesn't exist. How do I get this damn locale?