ref-manual: use standardized method accross both ubuntu and debian for locale install

Modify locale installation method to be standard accross all debian-based distributions.
Pre-existing method is available only on Ubuntu, locale-gen tool has no parameter in Debian.

(From yocto-docs rev: 057f2fbce22fc020bef7d432275e28227895e022)

Signed-off-by: Guénaël Muller <guenael.muller@smile.fr>
Reviewed-by: Yoann Congal <yoann.congal@smile.fr>
Reviewed-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
Tested-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
(cherry picked from commit 30002019198a168e48537407bb928facb26af82a)
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>
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Guénaël Muller 2024-12-02 12:01:28 +01:00 committed by Steve Sakoman
parent bdd2eae1f5
commit 0bee34892d
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@ -13,8 +13,7 @@ YOCTO_RELEASE_DL_URL : "&YOCTO_DL_URL;/releases/yocto/yocto-&DISTRO;"
UBUNTU_HOST_PACKAGES_ESSENTIAL : "gawk wget git diffstat unzip texinfo gcc \
build-essential chrpath socat cpio python3 python3-pip python3-pexpect \
xz-utils debianutils iputils-ping python3-git python3-jinja2 \
python3-subunit zstd liblz4-tool file locales libacl1
\n\ $ sudo locale-gen en_US.UTF-8"
python3-subunit zstd liblz4-tool file locales libacl1"
FEDORA_HOST_PACKAGES_ESSENTIAL : "gawk make wget tar bzip2 gzip python3 unzip perl patch \
diffutils diffstat git cpp gcc gcc-c++ glibc-devel texinfo chrpath \
ccache perl-Data-Dumper perl-Text-ParseWords perl-Thread-Queue perl-bignum socat \

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@ -160,8 +160,25 @@ with a supported Ubuntu or Debian Linux distribution::
$ sudo apt install &UBUNTU_HOST_PACKAGES_ESSENTIAL;
You also need to ensure you have the ``en_US.UTF-8`` locale enabled::
$ locale --all-locales | grep en_US.utf8
If this is not the case, you can reconfigure the ``locales`` package to add it
(requires an interactive shell)::
$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
.. note::
- If you are not in an interactive shell, ``dpkg-reconfigure`` will
not work as expected. To add the locale you will need to edit
``/etc/locale.gen`` file to add/uncomment the ``en_US.UTF-8`` locale.
A naive way to do this as root is::
$ echo "en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8" >> /etc/locale.gen
$ locale-gen
- If your build system has the ``oss4-dev`` package installed, you
might experience QEMU build failures due to the package installing
its own custom ``/usr/include/linux/soundcard.h`` on the Debian