Re: apt-get error

[Dr Gavin Seddon <gavin.m.seddon@man.ac.uk>]

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eb ftp://debian.inode.at/debian-amd64/debian/ sid main contribapt-get
install locale
 locale
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package locale

Thanks.





On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 08:30 -0500, Mike Dobbs wrote:
> What happens when you type "apt-get install locale"
> What does your /etc/apt/source.list look like?
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Dr Gavin Seddon" <gavin.m.seddon@man.ac.uk>
> To: "Lennart Sorensen" <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
> Cc: "Mike Dobbs" <spam@mdobbs.com>; "Dr Gavin Seddon" 
> <gavin.m.seddon@manchester.ac.uk>; <debian-amd64@lists.debian.org>
> Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 8:24 AM
> Subject: Re: apt-get error
> 
> 
> > There's the prob. apt doesn't work.
> >
> > On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 08:54 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> >> On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 11:50:45AM +0000, Dr Gavin Seddon wrote:
> >> > When I try to reconfigure I get
> >> > '/usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: local is not installed'
> >> > How do I fix this?
> >>
> >> Was that supposed to be 'locale is not installed'?
> >>
> >> If so, apt-get install locale.
> >>
> >> locale is requires for supporting multiple languages.  I have no idea if
> >> the system can run without it and still display messages from programs
> >> that support multiple languages through locale.
> >>
> >> Len Sorensen
> >>
> >>
> >
> > 
>