locales

[Michael Havens]

As I try to install programs lately it seems that wile it is in process 
apt-get tells me something about 'setting locale failed'. So I 
investigated 'dselect locale', 'dselect locales', and 'apt-get locales'. The 
first two commands wanted to update  and install like a thousand files per 
command while the last command wanted to update two or three. Hey, look at 
that! It is setting up 'locales' which seems to be a problem now. What are 
locales. It would seem that they are files concerning local things for 
different countries in the world. Is that an accurate guess?