bug#40899: Locales not set up correctly

2020-04-28 Thread zimoun
On Tue, 28 Apr 2020 at 12:59, Matthew Kraai wrote: > I think the problem is that LANG is set to 'C.UTF-8' by default. If I > change the contents of /etc/default/locale from > > LANG=C.UTF-8 > > to > > LANG=en_US.UTF-8 Ah yes. :-) So closing.

bug#40899: Locales not set up correctly

2020-04-28 Thread Matthew Kraai
On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 11:15:58AM +0200, zimoun wrote: > Is 'admin' the regular user or another name for the 'root' account? > > On the Debian foreign distro, for GUIX_LOCPATH, I have: > > - root account: /root/.guix-profile/lib/local > - regular user: /home/kikoo/.guix-profile/lib/locale 'ad

bug#40899: Locales not set up correctly

2020-04-28 Thread zimoun
Is 'admin' the regular user or another name for the 'root' account? On the Debian foreign distro, for GUIX_LOCPATH, I have: - root account: /root/.guix-profile/lib/local - regular user: /home/kikoo/.guix-profile/lib/locale Hope that helps, simon

bug#40899: Locales not set up correctly

2020-04-28 Thread Matthew Kraai
On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 10:14:13AM +0200, zimoun wrote: > On Tue, 28 Apr 2020 at 09:56, Matthew Kraai wrote: > > > When I run guix, it still produces the same locale messages: > > > > ``` > > $ guix package -I > > guile: warning: failed to install locale > > hint: Consider installing the `glibc-u

bug#40899: Locales not set up correctly

2020-04-28 Thread zimoun
On Tue, 28 Apr 2020 at 09:56, Matthew Kraai wrote: > When I run guix, it still produces the same locale messages: > > ``` > $ guix package -I > guile: warning: failed to install locale > hint: Consider installing the `glibc-utf8-locales' or `glibc-locales' package > and defining `GUIX_LOCPATH', a

bug#40899: Locales not set up correctly

2020-04-28 Thread Matthew Kraai
Hi simon, On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 02:53:17PM +0200, zimoun wrote: > On Mon, 27 Apr 2020 at 14:30, Matthew Kraai wrote: > > > $ guix package -i nss-certs > > guile: warning: failed to install locale > > There 3 points: > > a) "guix install glibc-utf8-locales" as root because of the daemon > an

bug#40899: Locales not set up correctly

2020-04-27 Thread zimoun
Dear, On Mon, 27 Apr 2020 at 14:30, Matthew Kraai wrote: > $ guix package -i nss-certs > guile: warning: failed to install locale There 3 points: a) "guix install glibc-utf8-locales" as root because of the daemon and restart it. (depending on your system init, an extra config should be requir

bug#40899: Locales not set up correctly

2020-04-27 Thread Matthew Kraai
Hi, After I launch an EC2 instance using the official Debian 10 Buster AMI and run the attached script, which should match the installation instructions in the manual, the locales don't seem to be set up properly. For example, ``` $ guix package -i nss-certs guile: warning: failed to install loc