Why do I get “Failed to set locale, defaulting to C” when using yum?

Question

Every time I run yum install or yum update, I get

Failed to set locale, defaulting to C

and then other information.

How can I avoid getting this warning?

Answer 1

You can try

export LANG=en_US

Or set it to something similar. If that resolves the issue for you, you can make it persistent by modifying the bash profile.