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Can't Resolve Locale Issues With Meld

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Whenever I try to run the programming tool meld I get the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/usr/bin/meld", line 75, in <module>

    locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL,'')

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/locale.py", line 540, in setlocale

    return _setlocale(category, locale)

From what I've read it appears my locale settings are off, and indeed when I run locale -a I get:

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_COLLATE to default locale: No such file or directory

C

C.UTF-8

POSIX

Similarly when I run plain old locale I get:

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

LANGUAGE=

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=

The problem is, when I try to fix that with a sudo apt-get install language-pack-en-base I get:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:

 language-pack-en-base : Depends: locales (>= 2.3.6) but it is not going to be installed

and when I try sudo apt-get install locales I get:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:

 libc6 : Breaks: locales (< 2.18) but 2.13+git20110622-2 is to be installed

E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.

If I instead try the same thing inside Synaptic I see that installing locales would uninstall seemingly every package in my system (including apt)!

I thought that perhaps my sources were screwed up so I took out everything except the core "old-releases.ubuntu.com" ones, reloaded, and tried again, but that didn't help.

So, can anyone please help explain to me how I can either:

A) fix meld without messing around with all this locale stuff?

or

B) get language-pack-en-base to install without taking out the rest of my packages?