locale.Error: unsupported locale setting

Fix python unsupported locale error in Debian based distro

I was installing some python libraries that I needed, and this message came up:  

Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "/usr/bin/pip3", line 11, in <module>
 sys.exit(main())
 File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/__init__.py", line 215, in main
 locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '')
 File "/usr/lib/python3.5/locale.py", line 594, in setlocale
 return _setlocale(category, locale)
locale.Error: unsupported locale setting


To solve this error, Try with the following:

export LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
export LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales

Above 3 commands will reconfigure locales and that should solve the issue.

I will hope that the above works! Good Luck!

kind regards!

Aleja :)