So I SSH as root into my droplet’s terminal and I want to access the mongo shell to drop my documents from my mongodb database. How do I got about this?
I tried
mongo
and i got
Failed global initialization: BadValue Invalid or no user locale set. Please ensure LANG and/or LC_* environment variables are set correctly.
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At the command prompt:
export LC_ALL=C
and then try again. If that doesn’t work, you may need to edit:
/etc/default/locale
and set
LANG=
LANGUAGE=
LC_ALL=
to your preferred settings. As an example:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_US
LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
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