diff --git a/src/singularity_modules/multiqc/1.0/multiqc.def b/src/singularity_modules/multiqc/1.0/multiqc.def
index 8a24de708cf8c03c2ea9a3d4df02ab75455577e2..21feeaf227806ac7762df91292a551227abb4139 100644
--- a/src/singularity_modules/multiqc/1.0/multiqc.def
+++ b/src/singularity_modules/multiqc/1.0/multiqc.def
@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ pip3 install multiqc==${MULTIQC_VERSION}
 
 %environment
 export KALLISTO_VERSION=0.44.0
-export locale-gen en_US.UTF-8
 export LC_ALL=en_US.utf-8
 export LANG=en_US.utf-8
 export LC_ALL=C.UTF-8
diff --git a/src/singularity_modules/multiqc/1.7/multiqc.def b/src/singularity_modules/multiqc/1.7/multiqc.def
index b583428136376a03794124f4eada09f5d7c18bd8..fe7710f76efea82d347586042795d8bb2ec8fc46 100644
--- a/src/singularity_modules/multiqc/1.7/multiqc.def
+++ b/src/singularity_modules/multiqc/1.7/multiqc.def
@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ pip3 install multiqc==${MULTIQC_VERSION}
 
 %environment
 export KALLISTO_VERSION=0.44.0
-export locale-gen en_US.UTF-8
 export LC_ALL=en_US.utf-8
 export LANG=en_US.utf-8
 export LC_ALL=C.UTF-8