dpkg-reconfigure

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if perl shows the error “setting locale failed”,

perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
    LANGUAGE = (unset),
    LC_ALL = (unset),


Run the following (i.e for spanish)
# sudo locale-gen es_ES.UTF-8
# dpkg-reconfigure locales

it can be also en_EN.UTF-8, or any other locale.