diff -u -r ../apt-1.1.3/apt-pkg/aptconfiguration.cc ./apt-pkg/aptconfiguration.cc
--- ../apt-1.1.3/apt-pkg/aptconfiguration.cc	2015-11-30 03:08:24.000000000 -0500
+++ ./apt-pkg/aptconfiguration.cc	2015-12-03 18:16:35.167212811 -0500
@@ -35,8 +35,8 @@
 // setDefaultConfigurationForCompressors				/*{{{*/
 static void setDefaultConfigurationForCompressors() {
 	// Set default application paths to check for optional compression types
-	_config->CndSet("Dir::Bin::bzip2", "/bin/bzip2");
-	_config->CndSet("Dir::Bin::xz", "/usr/bin/xz");
+	_config->CndSet("Dir::Bin::bzip2", "bin/bzip2");
+	_config->CndSet("Dir::Bin::xz", "bin/xz");
 	if (FileExists(_config->FindFile("Dir::Bin::xz")) == true) {
 		_config->Set("Dir::Bin::lzma", _config->FindFile("Dir::Bin::xz"));
 		_config->Set("APT::Compressor::lzma::Binary", "xz");
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
 			_config->Set("APT::Compressor::lzma::UncompressArg::", "-d");
 		}
 	} else {
-		_config->CndSet("Dir::Bin::lzma", "/usr/bin/lzma");
+		_config->CndSet("Dir::Bin::lzma", "bin/lzma");
 		if (_config->Exists("APT::Compressor::lzma::CompressArg") == false) {
 			_config->Set("APT::Compressor::lzma::CompressArg::", "--suffix=");
 			_config->Set("APT::Compressor::lzma::CompressArg::", "-9");
@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@
 	// get the environment language codes: LC_MESSAGES (and later LANGUAGE)
 	// we extract both, a long and a short code and then we will
 	// check if we actually need both (rare) or if the short is enough
-	string const envMsg = string(Locale == 0 ? ::setlocale(LC_MESSAGES, NULL) : *Locale);
+	string const envMsg = "en_US.UTF-8"; // string(Locale == 0 ? ::setlocale(LC_MESSAGES, NULL) : *Locale);
 	size_t const lenShort = (envMsg.find('_') != string::npos) ? envMsg.find('_') : 2;
 	size_t const lenLong = (envMsg.find_first_of(".@") != string::npos) ? envMsg.find_first_of(".@") : (lenShort + 3);