проблемы с локалью на хостинговом впс

имеется впс на хостинговом серваке.. так вот, при попытке установить пакет php5-memcache выдает такую штуку:

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree       

Reading state information... Done

The following NEW packages will be installed:

  php5-memcache

0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 30 not upgraded.

1 not fully installed or removed.

Need to get 0B/40.6kB of archives.

After this operation, 168kB of additional disk space will be used.

perl: warning: Setting locale failed.

perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:

	LANGUAGE = (unset),

	LC_ALL = (unset),

	LANG = "ru_RU.utf8"

    are supported and installed on your system.

perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").

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

Setting up libc6 (2.7-18lenny7) ...

invoke-rc.d: unknown initscript, /etc/init.d/glibc.sh not found.

dpkg: error processing libc6 (--configure):

 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 100

Errors were encountered while processing:

 libc6

E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

где-то читал, что это решается с помощью

# apt-get install locales

# dpkg-reconfigure locales

однако,

apt-get install locales  

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree       

Reading state information... Done

The following NEW packages will be installed:

  locales

0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 30 not upgraded.

1 not fully installed or removed.

Need to get 0B/4432kB of archives.

After this operation, 11.9MB of additional disk space will be used.

perl: warning: Setting locale failed.

perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:

	LANGUAGE = (unset),

	LC_ALL = (unset),

	LANG = "ru_RU.utf8"

    are supported and installed on your system.

perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").

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

Preconfiguring packages ...

Setting up libc6 (2.7-18lenny7) ...

invoke-rc.d: unknown initscript, /etc/init.d/glibc.sh not found.

dpkg: error processing libc6 (--configure):

 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 100

Errors were encountered while processing:

 libc6

E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

уже ума не приложу чем можно помочь больному :(

cat /etc/debian_version

5.0.8