.. title: Linux Mint: "Warning: No support for locale: en_US.UTF-8" in update-initramfs
.. slug: linux-mint-warning-no-support-for-locale-en_us-utf-8-in-update-initramfs
.. date: 2014-09-05 22:26:53
.. tags: linux, locale
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After installing Linux Mint 17 in a VM I started the Update Manager to
get the latest updates, including kernel. In the details window I saw
this error:

::

    update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.13.0-24-generic

    Warning: No support for locale: en_US.UTF-8

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Thanks to `Tip: fix for update-initramfs "No support for local ..." <http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=175308>`_ I
found the cause and the solution.

Cause (quoting from the source
post): "The problem is that /usr/share/initramfs-
tools/hooks/root_locale is expecting to see individual locale
directories in /usr/lib/locale, but locale-gen is configured to
generate an archive file by default."

Solution: Run `locale-gen` again
(but use directories not archive file) and then `update-initramfs`.

::

    sudo locale-gen --purge --no-archive
    sudo update-initramfs -u -t

Note: I published this post originally at `Linux Mint: “Warning: No support for locale: en_US.UTF-8″ in update-initramfs <https://codeghar.wordpress.com/2014/09/05/linux-mint-warning-no-support-for-locale-en_us-utf-8-in-update-initramfs/>`_. Migrated to Nikola in February 2015.