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I have a Kali Linux where I cannot install any packages. locale is not working and I cannot install it what can I do? I changed sources.list but it's of no help, I tried sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales it tells me:

Can't exec "locale": No such file or directory at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Encoding.pm line 16.
Use of uninitialized value $Debconf::Encoding::charmap in scalar chomp at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Encoding.pm line 17.
dpkg: error: configuration error: /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d/multiarch:1: unknown option 'foreign-architecture'
/usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: locales is not installed

It's possible that your PATH setting is bad. Make sure that echo $PATH as a non-root user lists /usr/bin and /bin, and as the root user also /usr/sbin and /sbin. However, dpkg emits a warning in that case so if that warning was absent then this isn't the problem.

The locale command is part of a package that is marked as “essential” (libc-bin). To uninstall it, you have to type a full sentence at the confirmation prompt. This isn't something you can do by accident.

You might have removed the binary. Once again this won't happen automatically, it has to be a consequence of something you did while running as root. Be careful when running as root, only use the root account to do things that you can't do from your normal account. To reinstall the libc-bin package including the locale command, run this command as root:

apt-get --reinstall install libc-bin

You don't appear to have a lot of Linux experience. Kali Linux is a distribution for experienced security professionals, designed to run security-related tools in a virtual machine easily. It isn't designed for a permanent installation and it isn't designed for beginners. If you aren't an experienced Linux user, use a more friendly distribution such as elementary OS, Linux Mint or Ubuntu.