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After installing Ubuntu 14.10 Desktop 64-bit from scratch on a laptop, I tried to fix the installer bug whereby the locales are not set up properly by default.

I then found a possible fix to that installer bug at https://askubuntu.com/a/227513/340383 which calls for executing local-gen under sudo. Wanting to know more about what local-gen does, I executed man local-gen and got:

No manual entry for local-gen

So I have two questions:

  1. How do I start with a name of an executable, such as local-gen in this case, and find out the corresponding package to install the corresponding man pages?
  2. How do I find the man page package specifically for local-gen?
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I think it is

locale-gen

and man locale-gen gives:

DESCRIPTION
       Compiled  locale  files  take  about 50MB of disk space, and most users
       only need few locales.  In order to save disk  space,  compiled  locale
       files  are not distributed in the locales package, but...

Steeldriver did comment before I answered. I believe we hit upon it at the same time. I did not mean to plagiarize.

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  • Thanks but man local-gen gives man: can't set the local; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct followed by No manual entry for local-gen. Hmmmm. I wonder if we have a chicken-and-the-egg problem here with the first message dealing with locales? – bgoodr Feb 14 '15 at 18:48
  • I said locale-gen. There is an e on the end of it. – Tim Feb 14 '15 at 18:53
  • Ah! Shot myself in the foot with a missing "e"! How embarrasing. Marking your answer as the one. Thanks Tim. – bgoodr Feb 14 '15 at 18:57