diff --git a/lib/general.sh b/lib/general.sh
index 56f8693cec..fb471e2356 100644
--- a/lib/general.sh
+++ b/lib/general.sh
@@ -1027,7 +1027,12 @@ prepare_host()
 	# wait until package manager finishes possible system maintanace
 	wait_for_package_manager
 
-	# temporally fix for Locales settings
+	# fix for Locales settings
+	if ! grep -q "^en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8" /etc/locale.gen; then
+		sudo sed -i 's/# en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/' /etc/locale.gen
+		sudo locale-gen
+	fi
+
 	export LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
 
 	# packages list for host
@@ -1155,6 +1160,8 @@ prepare_host()
 
 	if [[ ${#deps[@]} -gt 0 ]]; then
 		display_alert "Installing build dependencies"
+		# don't prompt for apt cacher selection
+		sudo echo "apt-cacher-ng    apt-cacher-ng/tunnelenable      boolean false" | sudo debconf-set-selections
 		apt-get -q update
 		apt-get -y upgrade
 		apt-get -q -y --no-install-recommends install -o Dpkg::Options::='--force-confold' "${deps[@]}" | tee -a "${DEST}"/${LOG_SUBPATH}/hostdeps.log