Hi, I would like to be able to set the locale to en_US.UTF-8 in a toolbox running Fedora rawhide.
The toolbox is running in a Kinoite system.
The usual way for mutable OS does not work because localectl does not work:

[X@toolbox ~]$ localectl
System has not been booted with systemd as init system (PID 1). Can't operate.
Failed to connect to bus: Host is down
Slackoverflow provides solutions for Docker but not for podman as far as I could find anything.
Perhaps the solution is to use localedef but I don’t know what I am doing…
Thanks for your help!
              
The most straightforward way is probably that you set the locale environment variables, for example
export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
or to make it permanent in the current toolbox container:
echo export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 >> /etc/profile.d/toolbox-locale.sh
(LC_ALL will override all other locale settings, for the full list of more fine grained settings, see man 5 locale)
              
Many thanks, there is progress but it does not yet fully work.
I guess the export should be done in the host OS (in the toolbox it does not work).

That works, but then, then the following command did not work:
[X@fedora ~]$ sudo echo export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 >> /etc/profile.d/toolbox-locale.sh
bash: /etc/profile.d/toolbox-locale.sh: Permission denied
So I tried to directly create the file manually:
sudo nano /etc/profile.d/toolbox-locale.sh
and pasted in there export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8.
That did work.
Then I restarted the toolbox:
podman restart NAMEOFTOOLBOX
So now we have:
[X@toolbox ~]$ locale
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
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
which seems to contain issues and indeed makes the software I use still unhappy.
Any ideas?
              
I don’t think it is possible like that:
[X@toolbox ~]$ export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8)
bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8)
              
That’s most likely because that locale is not installed. You should be able to install it with
sudo dnf -y install glibc-langpack-en
(again inside the toolbox container)