-# ian: on flidas this gives an error: update-locale: Error: invalid locale settings: LANG=en_US.UTF-8
-# # in case the locales are already included inside the base file (Ubuntu)
-# if [ -f $target/usr/sbin/locale-gen ]; then
-# $ROOTCMD dpkg-reconfigure -fnoninteractive locales
-# exit
-# fi
+# in case the locales are already included inside the base file (Ubuntu)
+if [ -f $target/usr/sbin/locale-gen ]; then
+ exit
+fi