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When installing Splunk UF to Solaris OS, error message: couldn't set locale correctly

1000315118
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First time seeing this issue.

Running:

l  locale -a
l  which whoami

The result for this command would be as below:

ns4.xxx% locale -a
C
POSIX
iso_8859_1
ja
ja_JP.PCK
ja_JP.UTF-8
ja_JP.eucJP
ns4.xxx%
ns4.xxx% which whoami
no whoami in /usr/bin /bin
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1000315118
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This was due to inadequate libraries on the Solaris OS.

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1000315118
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Some additional info

domain.namep# sh -x ./Splunk_UF_Install_123.sh
couldn't set locale correctly
SCRIPT_VERSION=2.2.1

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