2 files changed, 18 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/documentation/poky.yaml.in b/documentation/poky.yaml.in
index 16bbce5afc..d9a0cc4d61 100644
--- a/documentation/poky.yaml.in
+++ b/documentation/poky.yaml.in
@@ -13,8 +13,7 @@ YOCTO_RELEASE_DL_URL : "&YOCTO_DL_URL;/releases/yocto/yocto-&DISTRO;"
 UBUNTU_HOST_PACKAGES_ESSENTIAL : "gawk wget git diffstat unzip texinfo gcc \
      build-essential chrpath socat cpio python3 python3-pip python3-pexpect \
      xz-utils debianutils iputils-ping python3-git python3-jinja2 \
-     python3-subunit zstd liblz4-tool file locales libacl1
-     \n\   $ sudo locale-gen en_US.UTF-8"
+     python3-subunit zstd liblz4-tool file locales libacl1"
 FEDORA_HOST_PACKAGES_ESSENTIAL : "gawk make wget tar bzip2 gzip python3 unzip perl patch \
      diffutils diffstat git cpp gcc gcc-c++ glibc-devel texinfo chrpath \
      ccache perl-Data-Dumper perl-Text-ParseWords perl-Thread-Queue perl-bignum socat \
diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/system-requirements.rst b/documentation/ref-manual/system-requirements.rst
index b45c863005..5b0beab7c2 100644
--- a/documentation/ref-manual/system-requirements.rst
+++ b/documentation/ref-manual/system-requirements.rst
@@ -160,8 +160,25 @@ with a supported Ubuntu or Debian Linux distribution::
 
    $ sudo apt install &UBUNTU_HOST_PACKAGES_ESSENTIAL;
 
+You also need to ensure you have the ``en_US.UTF-8`` locale enabled::
+
+   $ locale --all-locales | grep en_US.utf8
+
+If this is not the case, you can reconfigure the ``locales`` package to add it
+(requires an interactive shell)::
+
+   $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
+
 .. note::
 
+   -  If you are not in an interactive shell, ``dpkg-reconfigure`` will
+      not work as expected. To add the locale you will need to edit
+      ``/etc/locale.gen`` file to add/uncomment the ``en_US.UTF-8`` locale.
+      A naive way to do this as root is::
+
+         $ echo "en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8" >> /etc/locale.gen
+         $ locale-gen
+
    -  If your build system has the ``oss4-dev`` package installed, you
       might experience QEMU build failures due to the package installing
       its own custom ``/usr/include/linux/soundcard.h`` on the Debian