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Hello ubuntu community!

Recently i downloaded and installed ubuntu, and after some experimenting, im unable do open my terminal!

The problem occurred after i gave the machine the following command:

sudo apt-get -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-overwrite" install locales

Now i can only open xTerm, and i can't copy/paste from it...

I already tried to apt-get purge gnome-terminal/apt-get install gnome-terminal, but i was unsuccessful in repairing it!

Please, i need your help!

Edited:

This is the error i get when i try to execute gnome-terminal at xTerm:

Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
Using the fallbac 'C' locale.
Error constructing proxy for org.gnome.Terminal: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: Process org.gnome.Terminal exited with status 8

Edit 2: Yes, indeed it may be a Locale problem... But i don't know how to fix it yet!

After i run sudo apt-get install language-pack-en-base it says the package is already installed, but when i sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales it gives me the below perl error:

perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
    LANGUAGE = (unset),
    LC_ALL = (unset),
    LC_TIME = "pt_BR.UTF-8",
    LC_MONETARY = "pt_BR.UTF-8",
    LC_CTYPE = "pt_BR.UTF-8",
    LC_ADDRESS = "pt_BR.UTF-8",
    LC_TELEPHONE = "pt_BR.UTF-8",
    LC_NAME = "pt_BR.UTF-8",
    LC_MEASUREMENT = "pt_BR.UTF-8",
    LC_INDENTIFICATION = "pt_BR.UTF-8",
    LC_NUMERIC = "pt_BR.UTF-8",
    LC_PAPER = "pt_BR.UTF-8",
    LANG = (unset)
are suported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").

Anyone knows how to fix it?

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    What happens if you try to execute gnome-terminal from an xterm? are there any error messages? If so, please edit your question to include them. – steeldriver Dec 26 '15 at 23:50
  • Question edited! – Jacs Dec 27 '15 at 17:13
  • @Jacs - It states that you have messed up your locales - sudo apt-get install language-pack-en-base .Type the command and see if it worked. – Raphael Dec 27 '15 at 17:18
  • @Jacs - And then do this - sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales – Raphael Dec 27 '15 at 17:30
  • @Raphael Still not working... After some searching i found that this is a common problem to many users, and there is no good site with enough SEO to satisfy fixing it quickly – Jacs Jan 9 '16 at 4:13
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All you need to do to fix this is regenerate the broken locale files. just do
sudo locale-gen
and check if the file
/etc/default/locale
has the following 2 definitions LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LANGUAGE="en_US" are set possibly with other LC_* values for the Time , Numeric, Monetary types of the country you're in.

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