Locale problems with Ubuntu-7.10 minimal install

Posted by stoyan

Problem (after any package install i’ve got):

perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
        LANGUAGE = (unset),
        LC_ALL = (unset),
        LANG = "en_US.UTF-8" 
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").

Solution:

$ sudo apt-get install language-pack-en

Network upgrade for Ubuntu servers

Posted by stoyan

The new server upgrade system.

1. Install update-manager-core:

$ sudo apt-get install update-manager-core

2. Launch the upgrade tool:

$ sudo do-release-upgrade

Like usual, there is no step 3 ;)

Lighttpd on Debian and Ubuntu

Posted by stoyan

In the latest lighttpd-1.4.8 release, they removed the debian/ support (from the changelog): removed debian/ dir from source package on request by packager

Sad :( For me i solved the problem with copying the directory from the old 1.4.7 release and fixing the changelog file. If you need better support, use bougyman’s repository. In your debian or ubuntu /etc/apt/sources.list add:
deb http://debian.bougyman.com/ unstable main

Bougyman is a very interesting person. He is working for some US goverment organization and supporting a huge Ruby On Rails system (something like a paperless office) – PostgreSQL, linux virtual server powered FastCGI listeners etc. I learned a lot from him about using RoR in production environments. Thanks. Recently I found his typo blog – All-Purpose Log for Rubyists , full with useful information. Just to mention: