Dealing with Locales Ubuntu.

Installed brand new Ubuntu 14.04 64 bit on Hetzner server. Right after install tried to execute apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade. Getting following error nearly on all apt-get operation

export LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
locale-gen en_US.UTF-8 
dpkg-reconfigure locales

depending on your countries locales.

Securing the server using private and public keys

There is a way to generate private and public certificates.

The process is as follows: click here

It might be worthwhile to use the challenge password that you will remember

All important, but non-free updates and drivers

There are important updates that must be installed. to do this,

1. apt-get update

Ensure that locale is correctly set

export LC_ALL="en_ZA.UTF-8" export LC_CTYPE="en_ZA.UTF-8"    o make clipboard copy and paste - CTRL+V work normally use this one command:   echo -n "*VT100.translations: #override Meta <KeyPress> V: insert-selection(PRIMARY, CUT_BUFFER0)" >> ~/.Xdefaults

WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED!

ssh-keygen -R hostname