Linode Lish bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8)

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Trial & error with different answers, I came up with this solution (on Lish while server is in rescue-mode):

echo "LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8" >> /etc/environment
echo "en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8" >> /etc/locale.gen
echo "LANG=en_US.UTF-8" > /etc/locale.conf
locale-gen en_US.UTF-8

Last command resulted in the following error:

locale-gen: command not found

Here’s what you need to do (still on Lish):

apt-get clean && apt-get update
apt-get install locales
locale-gen en_US.UTF-8
Generating locales (this might take a while)...
  en_US.UTF-8... done
Generation complete

You’re good to go…copy your server’s disk over to your local machine.

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