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I’ve spent sometime trying to figure out how to install a locale that I need on one of my servers that runs Ubuntu 8.x. I try to find which package owns the needed file on my laptop that runs kubuntu, but it seems that the file ar not owned by no package.

After googling a bit I’ve found this solution:

1. Check the name of the needed locale:

$ grep es_ES /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED
es_ES.UTF-8 UTF-8
es_ES ISO-8859-1
es_ES@euro ISO-8859-15

We want utf8 support, so…

2. Generate choosen locale:

$ sudo locale-gen es_ES.UTF-8
Generating locales...
  es_ES.UTF-8... done
Generation complete.

3. Check it?

$ locale -a
C
en_US.utf8
es_ES
es_ES.utf8
POSIX

That’s all!