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The file /etc/locale.gen does not exist on my Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, how can I add a new locale the right way ?
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To add a new locale, you have to add it to /etc/locale.gen, save the file and run following command:
sudo locale-gen But it is really strange, that this file is missing on your system.
Add this for American-English:
en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 /etc/locale.gen contains all local settings and system languages in a commented format.
To add /etc/locale.gen the right way, run the command
$ sudo apt install locale-gen --reinstall The output would be
$ sudo apt install locales --reinstall Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Need to get 3,612 kB of archives. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 bionic/main amd64 locales all 2.27-3ubuntu1 [3,612 kB] Fetched 3,612 kB in 17s (213 kB/s) Preconfiguring packages ... (Reading database ... 264543 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../locales_2.27-3ubuntu1_all.deb ... Unpacking locales (2.27-3ubuntu1) over (2.27-3ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.3-2ubuntu0.1) ... Setting up locales (2.27-3ubuntu1) ... Generating locales (this might take a while)... en_AG.UTF-8... done en_AU.UTF-8... done en_BW.UTF-8... done en_CA.UTF-8... done en_DK.UTF-8... done en_GB.UTF-8... done en_HK.UTF-8... done en_IE.UTF-8... done en_IL.UTF-8... done en_IN.UTF-8... done en_NG.UTF-8... done en_NZ.UTF-8... done en_PH.UTF-8... done en_SG.UTF-8... done en_US.UTF-8... done en_ZA.UTF-8... done en_ZM.UTF-8... done en_ZW.UTF-8... done Generation complete. 
