fix(archsetup): add locale configuration

Configure en_US.UTF-8 locale early in Environment Configuration
section to prevent "cannot change locale" errors during package
installs.

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/archsetup b/archsetup
index e598b9f..177afcc 100755
--- a/archsetup
+++ b/archsetup
@@ -523,6 +523,13 @@ prerequisites() {
 
     display "subtitle" "Environment Configuration"
 
+    # configure locale (must happen before package installs that depend on locale)
+    action="configuring locale" && display "task" "$action"
+    sed -i 's/^#en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8/' /etc/locale.gen
+    (locale-gen >> "$logfile" 2>&1) || error "error" "$action" "$?"
+    echo "LANG=en_US.UTF-8" > /etc/locale.conf
+    export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
+
     # sync the time on this machine (one-shot chrony sync)
     action="synchronizing system time" && display "task" "$action"
     (chronyd -q 'server 0.us.pool.ntp.org iburst' >> "$logfile" 2>&1) || error "error" "$action" "$?"