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Cause

On linux systems, when the enviroment variables refer to locales that haven't been installed locally, a vague perl error can be thrown in some instance:

perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
        LANGUAGE = "en_US:en",
        LC_ALL = (unset),
        LC_ADDRESS = "nl_NL.UTF-8",
        LC_NAME = "nl_NL.UTF-8",
        LC_MONETARY = "nl_NL.UTF-8",
        LC_PAPER = "nl_NL.UTF-8",
        LC_IDENTIFICATION = "nl_NL.UTF-8",
        LC_TELEPHONE = "nl_NL.UTF-8",
        LC_MEASUREMENT = "nl_NL.UTF-8",
        LC_TIME = "nl_NL.UTF-8",
        LC_NUMERIC = "nl_NL.UTF-8",
        LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to a fallback locale ("en_US.UTF-8")

Solution

• Run the export command, to check what your locale settings are. Look for lines that look like this:

declare -x LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
declare -x LANGUAGE="en_US:en"
declare -x LC_ADDRESS="nl_NL.UTF-8"
declare -x LC_IDENTIFICATION="nl_NL.UTF-8"
declare -x LC_MEASUREMENT="nl_NL.UTF-8"
declare -x LC_MONETARY="nl_NL.UTF-8"
declare -x LC_NAME="nl_NL.UTF-8"
declare -x LC_NUMERIC="nl_NL.UTF-8"
declare -x LC_PAPER="nl_NL.UTF-8"
declare -x LC_TELEPHONE="nl_NL.UTF-8"
declare -x LC_TIME="nl_NL.UTF-8"

In this case, nl_NL.UTF-8 is the problem

• Edit /etc/locale.gen an uncomment the locales referred in your enviroment variables

• Run sudo locale-gen to generate any new locales

Now the problem should be resolved.