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guidsen

Reputation: 2393

Can't configure locale in Docker image

I'm trying to install a locale file in my Docker image, but for some reason it doesn't install correctly.

These lines inside my Dockerfile do configure + install the locale files:

# Install and configure locales
RUN ["apt-get", "install", "-y", "locales"]
RUN ["locale-gen", "nl_NL.UTF-8"]
RUN ["dpkg-reconfigure", "locales"]
RUN ["update-locale"]
ENV LANG nl_NL.UTF-8

The image is created succesfully. When I run docker exec **ID** locale -a I still get the following error:

locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_COLLATE to default locale: No such file or directory
C
C.UTF-8
POSIX

So I guess it didn't installed the locale files correctly. Anyone could help me with this?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 6173

Answers (2)

Rodrigo González Escudero
Rodrigo González Escudero

Reputation: 31

A bit to late but, I hope this helps someone else. Had similar isue and the following comands work for me

# syntax=docker/dockerfile:1
FROM ubuntu:22.04


# Set the locale
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y locales \
    locales-all 
RUN locale-gen nl_NL.UTF-8  
ENV LANG nl_NL.UTF-8  
ENV LANGUAGE nl_NL:nl 
ENV LC_ALL nl_NL.UTF-8  
RUN update-locale LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8

Upvotes: 2

Niko Jojo
Niko Jojo

Reputation: 1226

Try both locales and locales-all

like : 

RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
    locales \
    locales-all \

Upvotes: 5

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