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Centos warning: setlocale: LC_CTYPE: cannot change locale (UTF-8): No such file or directory
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  1. vi /etc/environment

add these lines...

LANG=en_US.utf-8
LC_ALL=en_US.utf-8

Alternatively,

  1. Create locale file manually: localedef -i en_US -f UTF-8 en_US.UTF-8

Explained here

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chiro-hiro commented Oct 7, 2025 •
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If you got LC_CTYPE error, try adding this.

LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"

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kiprotichgidii commented Dec 22, 2025 •
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Just place this in your /etc/environment file:

LANG="en_US.utf-8"
LC_ALL="en_US.utf-8"
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"

Then run:

sudo localedef -i en_US -f UTF-8 en_US.UTF-8

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mofelee commented Mar 27, 2026

Just place this in your /etc/environment file:

LANG="en_US.utf-8"
LC_ALL="en_US.utf-8"
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"

Then run:

sudo localedef -i en_US -f UTF-8 en_US.UTF-8

It works!!!

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zulik commented Apr 9, 2026

worked on Deb13

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