ansible installation fails with LOCALE error

Error:

`
msg: 'apt-get install ‘runit’ ’ failed: perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LC_TIME = “de_DE.UTF-8”,
LC_MONETARY = “de_DE.UTF-8”,
LC_ADDRESS = “de_DE.UTF-8”,
LC_TELEPHONE = “de_DE.UTF-8”,
LC_NAME = “de_DE.UTF-8”,
LC_MEASUREMENT = “de_DE.UTF-8”,
LC_IDENTIFICATION = “de_DE.UTF-8”,
LC_NUMERIC = “de_DE.UTF-8”,
LC_PAPER = “de_DE.UTF-8”,
LANG = “C”
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale (“C”).
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
grep: /etc/inittab: No such file or directory
grep: /etc/inittab: No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat ‘/etc/inittab’: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing package runit (–configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
runit
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

`

This is an open source ansimble config from here:
https://github.com/txbits/TxBitsDeployer

Let it be noted that I am using Ubuntu 14.04 instead of Debian 8 as noted in the docs.
Could that be the problem?

Issue is not with Ansible but with your system.
Seems you may have to regenerate some of your locale settings.
Try the solution mentioned here: http://askubuntu.com/questions/162391/how-do-i-fix-my-locale-issue

-Nico