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Fixing "perl: warning: Setting locale failed" on Debian 5.0

If you're seeing some error messages like this

perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
	LANGUAGE = (unset),
	LC_ALL = (unset),
	LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").

Run the following

apt-get install locales
dpkg-reconfigure locales

In the screens that follow, select the locale for your language.  For example, for my server in California, I selected "en_US.UTF-8".

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