There are no additional languages available on this system

Question

When I accidentally deleted Localizations via BleachBit, in system settings I can't add another language. And this massage pop-up: "There are no additional languages available on this system." How can I fix this?

Mathieu J. · Answer 1 · 2020-04-29T23:04:23.413

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First run sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales from the command line to adjust your locales setting.

Then open the Languages module from the System Settings.

There is an Add language button.

you can order multiple languages in order of preferences. if some translations strings are missing, it will automatically fallback to your next favorite.

you need to logout and log back in after adding languages

edited Apr 29 '20 at 23:04

answered Apr 29 '20 at 14:05

Mathieu J.

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Dgir · Answer 2 · 2020-05-06T08:50:27.870

So. I delete ALL errors messages like

  aa_DJ.ISO-8859-1...[error] cannot open locale definition file `aa_DJ': No such file or directory
 done

because there are too many of them and the entire log does not fit in one comment. I left only those that were without error, to my surprise there was no English on "locales", strange, but there are other languages and Russian, which is my main language. So I do not know what to do, this so so frustrating, losing my mind here.

dgir@dgir-PC:~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
[sudo] password for dgir: 
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
        LANGUAGE = "en_US:ru",
        LC_ALL = (unset),
        LC_ADDRESS = "ru_RU.UTF-8",
        LC_NAME = "ru_RU.UTF-8",
        LC_MONETARY = "ru_RU.UTF-8",
        LC_PAPER = "ru_RU.UTF-8",
        LC_IDENTIFICATION = "ru_RU.UTF-8",
        LC_TELEPHONE = "ru_RU.UTF-8",
        LC_MEASUREMENT = "ru_RU.UTF-8",
        LC_TIME = "ru_RU.UTF-8",
        LC_NUMERIC = "ru_RU.UTF-8",
        LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
Generating locales (this might take a while)...
  bem_ZM.UTF-8... done
  ber_MA.UTF-8... done
  cmn_TW.UTF-8... done
  hak_TW.UTF-8... done
  mfe_MU.UTF-8... done
  niu_NU.UTF-8... done
  niu_NZ.UTF-8... done
  ru_RU.ISO-8859-5... done
  ru_RU.CP1251... done
  ru_RU.KOI8-R... done
  ru_RU.UTF-8... done
  ru_UA.KOI8-U... done
  ru_UA.UTF-8... done
  sah_RU.UTF-8... done
  tpi_PG.UTF-8... done
  unm_US.UTF-8... done
  yuw_PG.UTF-8... done
Generation complete.
*** update-locale: Error: invalid locale settings:  LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NAME="ru_RU.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="ru_RU.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="ru_RU.UTF-8" LANGUAGE="ru:en_US:en" LC_TELEPHONE="ru_RU.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="ru_RU.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="ru_RU.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="ru_RU.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="ru_RU.UTF-8" LC_TIME="ru_RU.UTF-8"
dgir@dgir-PC:~$

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 30 '20 at 07:34

@Mathieu J. In /etc/default/locale

#  File generated by update-locale
#LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LANGUAGE="ru:en_US:en"
LANG="ru_RU.UTF-8"

From locale-gen

dgir@dgir-PC:~$ sudo locale-gen
[sudo] password for dgir: 
Generating locales (this might take a while)...
  en_AG.UTF-8...failed to set locale!
[error] cannot open locale definition file `en_GB': No such file or directory
 done
  en_AU.UTF-8...failed to set locale!
[error] cannot open locale definition file `en_AU': No such file or directory
 done
  en_BW.UTF-8...failed to set locale!
[error] cannot open locale definition file `en_GB': No such file or directory
 done
  en_CA.UTF-8...failed to set locale!
[error] cannot open locale definition file `en_CA': No such file or directory
 done
  en_DK.UTF-8...failed to set locale!
[error] cannot open locale definition file `en_GB': No such file or directory
 done
  en_GB.UTF-8...failed to set locale!
[error] cannot open locale definition file `en_GB': No such file or directory
 done
  en_HK.UTF-8...failed to set locale!
[error] cannot open locale definition file `en_GB': No such file or directory
 done
  en_IE.UTF-8...failed to set locale!
[error] cannot open locale definition file `en_GB': No such file or directory
 done
  en_IL.UTF-8...failed to set locale!
[error] cannot open locale definition file `en_GB': No such file or directory
 done
  en_IN.UTF-8...failed to set locale!
[error] cannot open locale definition file `en_GB': No such file or directory
 done
  en_NG.UTF-8...failed to set locale!
[error] cannot open locale definition file `da_DK': No such file or directory
 done
  en_NZ.UTF-8...failed to set locale!
[error] cannot open locale definition file `en_GB': No such file or directory
 done
  en_PH.UTF-8...failed to set locale!
[error] cannot open locale definition file `en_GB': No such file or directory
 done
  en_SG.UTF-8...failed to set locale!
[error] cannot open locale definition file `en_GB': No such file or directory
 done
  en_US.ISO-8859-1...failed to set locale!
[error] cannot open locale definition file `en_GB': No such file or directory
 done
  en_US.ISO-8859-15...failed to set locale!
[error] cannot open locale definition file `en_GB': No such file or directory
 done
  en_US.UTF-8...failed to set locale!
[error] cannot open locale definition file `en_GB': No such file or directory
 done
  en_ZA.UTF-8...failed to set locale!
[error] cannot open locale definition file `en_GB': No such file or directory
 done
  en_ZM.UTF-8...failed to set locale!
[error] cannot open locale definition file `en_GB': No such file or directory
 done
  en_ZW.UTF-8...failed to set locale!
[error] cannot open locale definition file `en_GB': No such file or directory
 done
  ru_RU.ISO-8859-5... done
  ru_RU.CP1251... done
  ru_RU.KOI8-R... done
  ru_RU.UTF-8... done
  ru_UA.UTF-8... done
Generation complete.
dgir@dgir-PC:~$

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered May 08 '20 at 02:34

if you get this error.

aa_DJ.ISO-8859-1...[error] cannot open locale definition fileaa_DJ': No such file or directory`

when running locale-gen

checkout this related answer

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/299536/locale-error-cannot-open-locale-definition-file-fa-ir#299547

sudo apt-get purge locales
sudo apt-get purge language-pack-fa
sudo apt-get install locales
sudo apt-get install language-pack-fa

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Oct 13 '24 at 09:21

I'm getting "There are no additional languages available on this system" too and none of the answers I found on the Internet can solve my problem, only leading me onto the wrong ways. So I think it's worthwhile to log what actually worked for me, ignoring all that didn't work (which were plenty):

Foremost,

My system is heavily trimmed and never need any language support previously until now.
and I hope to keep it that way -- installing only the minimum packages just to get pass it.
In the end, I'm still having such "There are no additional languages available on this system" issue, but I can now manage to have my KDE in another language (Chinese). Please bear it in mind when check the following out.

In short, to have KDE in Chinese

sudo apt install -y language-pack-kde-zh-hans
Change ./.config/plasma-localerc from

[Formats]
LANG=C

To,

[Formats]
LANG=zh_CN.utf8

That's it!

There are no additional languages available on this system

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