pip install - locale.Error: unsupported locale setting

Question

Full stacktrace:

➜  ~ pip install virtualenv
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File \"/usr/bin/pip\", line 11, in 
    sys.exit(main())
           


        

Answer 1

Ubuntu:

$ sudo vi /etc/default/locale

Add below setting at the end of file.

LC_ALL = en_US.UTF-8

Answer 2

While you can set the locale exporting an env variable, you will have to do that every time you start a session. Setting a locale this way will solve the problem permanently:

sudo apt-get install locales
sudo locale-gen en_US.UTF-8
sudo echo "LANG=en_US.UTF-8" > /etc/default/locale

Answer 3

Run the following command (it will work):

export LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
export LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales