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Annoying error on my server

Getting a rather annoying error on my server every time I log in and try install something via aptitude. It was pissing me off enough that I had to fix it. Hopefully google will pick this up and it will be handy for someone else to fix if they have this problem. The error was:

perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = “en_GB.UTF-8″
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale (“C”).
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
Setting up bind9 (1:9.7.3.dfsg-1ubuntu2.7) …
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

Easy enough fixed with:

root@gandalf ~]# locale-gen en_US en_US.UTF-8 hu_HU hu_HU.UTF-8
Generating locales…
en_US.ISO-8859-1… done
en_US.UTF-8… done
hu_HU.ISO-8859-2… done
hu_HU.UTF-8… done
Generation complete.
[root@gandalf ~]# dpkg-reconfigure locales
Generating locales…
en_US.ISO-8859-1… up-to-date
en_US.UTF-8… up-to-date
hu_HU.ISO-8859-2… up-to-date
hu_HU.UTF-8… up-to-date
Generation complete.
[root@gandalf ~]#

No hand holding on this post. If you can understand the above then you should be able to work out what the fuck I just did :)

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