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Fixing locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory

If you encounter the following error:

locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory

You can fix this by invoking the following command on a Debian-based system:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales

This will then prompt you for a selection of locales and regenerate them.

Note

I have encountered this issue on a fresh installation of Raspberry Pi OS (Build 2021-01-11). But this command should also work for Debian-based operating systems (e.g. Ubuntu).