title: Cannot change the locale settings on Magento installation
body: <p>Need to get into Magento shop as a developer, and got some basic trouble on installation. </p>
  
  <p>Background: Got a LUBUNTU Virtual Box running Apache, PHP 5.5 and MySQL. Downloaded magento from <a href="http://www.magentocommerce.com/download" rel="nofollow">http://www.magentocommerce.com/download</a>.</p>
  
  <p>Made a database manually with phpMyAdmin, copied the code of Magento to /var/www/html/magento and chmod'ed it to 775,  chown'ed it to www-data:www-data.</p>
  
  <p>The problem: on startup screen from Magento installation I cannot select another language. After a selection it gets back to English / US. And trying to go through with English causes this error: </p>
  
  <pre><code>#0 /var/www/html/magento/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/Resource/Setup.php(645):
      Mage::exception('Mage_Core', 'Error in file: ...')
      #1 /var/www/html/magento/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/Resource/Setup.php(407): Mage_Core_Model_Resource_Setup-&gt;_modifyResourceDb('data-upgrade', '1.6.0.0', '1.6.0.2')
      #2 /var/www/html/magento/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/Resource/Setup.php(286): Mage_Core_Model_Resource_Setup-&gt;_upgradeData('1.6.0.0', '1.6.0.2')
      #3 /var/www/html/magento/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/Resource/Setup.php(269): Mage_Core_Model_Resource_Setup-&gt;applyDataUpdates()
      #4 /var/www/html/magento/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/App.php(351): Mage_Core_Model_Resource_Setup::applyAllDataUpdates()
      #5 /var/www/html/magento/app/Mage.php(684): Mage_Core_Model_App-&gt;run(Array)
      #6 /var/www/html/magento/index.php(87): Mage::run('', 'store')
      #7 {main}
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  <p>Has someone got any idea what I did wrong?</p>