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Centos warning: setlocale: LC_CTYPE: cannot change locale (UTF-8): No such file or directory
vi /etc/environment
add these lines...
LANG=en_US.utf-8
LC_ALL=en_US.utf-8
@membphis
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Thanks +1

@kaungmyatsoe
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Thanks

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samma89 commented Jan 29, 2017

+1 Thanks.

@PENGZhaoqing
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Thanks

@23Pstars
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+1

@hannemario
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+1

@adieuadieu
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Cheers for this.

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pilhoon commented Mar 20, 2017

+1

@hugotavares
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+1

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ZhukV commented Nov 4, 2017

+1

@ibnusulaiman83
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share my solutions for Centos 7

sudo nano /etc/environment

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

Ctrl + X > Yes >Enter

sudo reboot

@princealikhan
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+1

@caf3babe
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Thanks mate. Worked like a charm.
Do you know the root cause of this warning ?

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adwski commented Aug 3, 2020

Thanks!

@AlternativeYeah
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Thanks!

@TiigerChayaphol
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Thanks!

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mosamadi commented May 3, 2021

I am using AWS Linux and this was fix my issue:
sudo localedef -i en_US -f UTF-8 en_US.UTF-8

@francotel
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In my case I disable "set locale variables automatically" from my terminal preferences and It's ok

@datavisorchengpeng
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now working

@aankittcoolest
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Thank you!

@gdiazmez
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works, thanks!

@DAIHAITANG
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thank you. fix my problem.

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deivide commented Sep 1, 2022

+1

@YevheniiPokhvalii
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Don't forget to install glibc-langpack-en if it's missing.

@vivekkum-ar
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run command : sudo nano /etc/environment
add the below two lines
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
save- ctrl+o
confirm save
exit nano with- ctrl+x
run command : source /etc/environment

You should be good to go. But i discovered that it needs to reboot on arch given my system specs below for your reference.
image

@YevheniiPokhvalii
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run command : sudo nano /etc/environment add the below two lines LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" save- ctrl+o confirm save exit nano with- ctrl+x run command : source /etc/environment

You should be good to go. But i discovered that it needs to reboot on arch given my system specs below for your reference. image

It will not work, if you do not have glibc-langpack installed for the required language. English in our case glibc-langpack-en

@meetsohail
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Thanks

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joshgies-xad commented May 1, 2023

+1 for mosamadi solution. It resolved it for me on Amazon Linux 2.
Thank you @mosamadi !

[joshgies@ec2-54-226-27-205 payments-np101 ~]$ sudo su -
Last login: Mon May 1 18:57:54 UTC 2023 on pts/0
-bash: warning: setlocale: LC_CTYPE: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8): No such file or directory
-bash: warning: setlocale: LC_COLLATE: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8): No such file or directory
-bash: warning: setlocale: LC_MESSAGES: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8): No such file or directory
-bash: warning: setlocale: LC_NUMERIC: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8): No such file or directory
-bash: warning: setlocale: LC_TIME: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8): No such file or directory
[root@ec2-54-226-27-205 payments-np101 ~]$ exit
logout
[joshgies@ec2-54-226-27-205 payments-np101 ~]$ sudo -s
[root@ec2-54-226-27-205 payments-np101 joshgies]$
[root@ec2-54-226-27-205 payments-np101 joshgies]$ man localedef
man: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct
[root@ec2-54-226-27-205 payments-np101 joshgies]$ sudo localedef -i en_US -f UTF-8 en_US.UTF-8
[root@ec2-54-226-27-205 payments-np101 joshgies]$ exit
exit
[joshgies@ec2-54-226-27-205 payments-np101 ~]$ sudo su -
Last login: Mon May 1 18:58:02 UTC 2023 on pts/0

@ans1genie
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adding that to your .profile (.zprofile, .. or somilar) is enough.

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