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Re: apt-get error



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







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