Commands by WMP (2)

  • Fix for error perl: warning: Setting locale failed.

    Fix for ubuntu error: perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = "en_GB:en", LC_ALL = (unset), LANG = "en_GB.UTF-8" are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C"). locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory Show Sample Output


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    sudo locale-gen en_GB.UTF-8 && sudo locale-gen --purge && sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
    WMP · 2012-04-09 08:33:22 0
  • Download last file from index of


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    NAME=`wget --quiet URL -O - | grep util-vserver | tail -n 1 | sed 's|</a>.*||;s/.*>//'`; wget URL$UTILVSERVER;
    WMP · 2011-07-17 13:01:20 1

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