problems with locales

[Alexander Smirnov]

N.F. wrote:
> Hi there,
>
>  since updating the tzdata package this morning
>  (which failed) I cannot fix the locale vars on my Gutsy.
>  as you can see:
>
>  perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
>  perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
>          LANGUAGE = "it_IT",
>          LC_ALL = (unset),
>          LANG = "it_IT.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 tzdata (2007i-0ubuntu0.7.10) ...
>  dpkg: error processing tzdata (--configure):
>   subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 10
>  Errors were encountered while processing:
>   tzdata
>
>
>
>  Anybody experienced the same problem ?
>  Any solution ?
>
>
>  thanks
>
>  Nico
i'm not sure, but you can try to recompile the locale
 >sudo locale-gen it_IT.UTF-8
and then try install tzdata again

another workaround is to set locale variable to en_US.utf8 for apt
 >LANG=en_US.UTF-8 apt-get install --reinstall tzdata