Man Doesn't Work

[Nils Kassube]

Bill Vance wrote:
> I don't know what
> happened, or how, but when I type, "man cmndname",
> what I get is:
> 
>     man: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG
>     are correct.
> 
> Echoing $LANG renders, "en_US.UTF-8", and $LC* returns
> a _long_ list of files and directories from my /home/
> dir.

$LC* is probably not what you want because the shell would read the 
"$LC" variable (which is empty) and append the "*" which makes the 
result "*" ... and that are all the files in your current directory.

According to <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Locale> I would think 
that the command

sudo locale-gen

should fix your problem.


Nils