= Setting Up Locales =

Minimal server installs (as is the case with VPS instances) often do not have a locale installed/generated (or at least, not for your particular locale).

A symptom of this looks something like:
{{{
$ perl -e 1
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
        LANGUAGE = (unset),
        LC_ALL = (unset),
        LANG = "en_AU.utf8"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
}}}

Steps to generate/install the locale so that this problem does not occur:

 1. Simplest approach (works on recent distributions as of late 2010): {{{
sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
}}}

 2. More manual approach (found here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=196414) (if the previous does not work): {{{
$ cd /usr/share/locales
$ ./install-language-pack en_AU
$ dpkg-reconfigure locales
}}}