Run “sudo dpkg-reconfigure localepurge” and you’ll see that if there are:

en_GB, en_GB.ISO-8859-15 and en_GB.UTF-8

Mine has (Intrepid Ibex).

I’m curious why you’re recommending use of the Synaptic Package Manager past step 1. I find it much simpler to just “sudo apt-get install “, and believe it better to promote that simplicity.

Also, I was a little unsure about which languages to choose with localepurge. The program itself recommends choosing both, for example, “en_US” and “en”. I am a British English speaker, so I went with “en_GB” (and “en_GB-UTF-8″) but could not find “gb” anywhere.

Thanks.