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I've rent a new server by dedibox.fr and the ubuntu server version is tunned by the dedibox team... On the Ubuntu Server 9.04 64bit/english version, there's a locale configuration issue. whenever you do a aptitude update or run the 'locale' command you get a warning like this : thomas@sd1:~$ locale 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 LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-15 LANGUAGE=en_US:en:en_GB:en LC_CTYPE="en_US.ISO-8859-15" LC_NUMERIC="en_US.ISO-8859-15" LC_TIME="en_US.ISO-8859-15" LC_COLLATE="en_US.ISO-8859-15" LC_MONETARY="en_US.ISO-8859-15" LC_MESSAGES="en_US.ISO-8859-15" LC_PAPER="en_US.ISO-8859-15" LC_NAME="en_US.ISO-8859-15" LC_ADDRESS="en_US.ISO-8859-15" LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.ISO-8859-15" L...

I'm installing several ubuntu servers for various purpose (home server, Secondary DNS server, new primary DNS server, web servers, development servers). For each one, I write the setup documentation (which are stored on a google apps premium account, which is by the way a must have for all the cooperative stuff). Here is what I do for all servers, no matter the final use : useful software sudo -s # switch to root account as at setup I do a lot of root stuff apt-get update # update the apt-get package list apt-get upgrade # upgrade all package that are installed by default apt-get install vim-full; # A lot of dependencies comes along, but vim is much better after (need some config modification) apt-get install sysstat; # To monitor Hard drive activities apt-get install whois; # contains the mkpasswd command apt-get install slocate; # slocate, to find...