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I'm trying to install Ms SQL Server on ubuntu 17.10, I run commands step by step:

wget -qO- https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc | sudo apt-key add -



sudo add-apt-repository "$(wget -qO- https://packages.microsoft.com/config/ubuntu/16.04/mssql-server-2017.list)"



sudo apt-get update



sudo apt-get install -y mssql-server

and when I run setup command:

sudo /opt/mssql/bin/mssql-conf setup

I get the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/opt/mssql/bin/../lib/mssql-conf/mssql-conf.py", line 277, in <module>

main()

File "/opt/mssql/bin/../lib/mssql-conf/mssql-conf.py", line 273, in main

processCommands()

File "/opt/mssql/bin/../lib/mssql-conf/mssql-conf.py", line 197, in processCommands

COMMAND_TABLE[args.which]()

File "/opt/mssql/bin/../lib/mssql-conf/mssql-conf.py", line 54, in handleSetup

exit(mssqlconfhelper.setupSqlServer(eulaAccepted, noprompt=args.noprompt))

File "/opt/mssql/lib/mssql-conf/mssqlconfhelper.py", line 817, in setupSqlServer

languageSelect(noprompt)

File "/opt/mssql/lib/mssql-conf/mssqlconfhelper.py", line 160, in languageSelect

language = locale.getdefaultlocale()[0]

File "/usr/lib/python2.7/locale.py", line 545, in getdefaultlocale

return _parse_localename(localename)

File "/usr/lib/python2.7/locale.py", line 477, in _parse_localename

raise ValueError, 'unknown locale: %s' % localename

ValueError: unknown locale: UTF-8

locale command outputs:

locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory

locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory

LANG=C.UTF-8

LANGUAGE=

LC_CTYPE=UTF-8

LC_NUMERIC="C.UTF-8"

LC_TIME="C.UTF-8"

LC_COLLATE="C.UTF-8"

LC_MONETARY="C.UTF-8"

LC_MESSAGES="C.UTF-8"

LC_PAPER="C.UTF-8"

LC_NAME="C.UTF-8"

LC_ADDRESS="C.UTF-8"

LC_TELEPHONE="C.UTF-8"

LC_MEASUREMENT="C.UTF-8"

LC_IDENTIFICATION="C.UTF-8"

LC_ALL=

root@ubuntu-mssql-server:~# 

what might be the solution?

As a workaround I suggest that you open the ~/.profile file for editing and add the line:

unset LC_CTYPE

That ought to compensate for the issue.

Reading from other forums I found that if you change the local variable named "LC_ALL", it has to be set to the following value: en_US.UTF-8.

The way to do this is to execute the following command as root:

export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8