Bug#994264: tex-common fails configuration (fmtutil failed) after texlive installation

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

Hi

On Tue, 14 Sep 2021, i5qme2b944w3 wrote:
> 
> perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
> perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
>         LANGUAGE = "",
>         LC_ALL = (unset),
>         LC_TIME = "en_ZA.UTF-8",
>         LC_MONETARY = "en_US.UTF-8",
>         LC_ADDRESS = "en_GB.UTF-8",
>         LC_TELEPHONE = "en_GB.UTF-8",
>         LC_NAME = "en_GB.UTF-8",
>         LC_MEASUREMENT = "en_ZA.UTF-8",
>         LC_IDENTIFICATION = "en_GB.UTF-8",
>         LC_NUMERIC = "en_GB.UTF-8",
>         LC_PAPER = "en_GB.UTF-8",
>         LANG = "en_GB.UTF-8"
>     are supported and installed on your system.

You have a broken locale set up, please run
	sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
and select at least en_ZA.UTF-8 and en_GB.UTF-8

This is the source of the problem as seen in the log file:
> fmtutil [INFO]: --- remaking dviluatex with luatex
> fmtutil: running `luatex -ini   -jobname=dviluatex -progname=dviluatex dviluatex.ini' ...
> Unable to read environment locale: exit now.
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Please fix your locale, then everything should work.

Best

Norbert

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