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Error

-bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8): No such file or directory
-bash: warning: setlocale: LC_CTYPE: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8): No such file or directory
-bash: warning: setlocale: LC_COLLATE: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8): No such file or directory
-bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8): No such file or directory
-bash: warning: setlocale: LC_CTYPE: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8): No such file or directory
-bash: warning: setlocale: LC_COLLATE: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8): No such file or directory
-bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8): No such file or directory

Solution

sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y locales

sudo locale-gen en_US.UTF-8
sudo update-locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8

sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
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