Re: apt-get error

["Mike Dobbs" <spam@mdobbs.com>]

The formatting on the email you sent is showing up poorley on my client. 
Check that it is in correct format and pointing to a amd64 repository.  Off 
the top of my head is should be something like:

deb ftp://debian.inode.at/debian-amd64/debian/ sid main contrib

and make sure you do an apt-get update


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dr Gavin Seddon" <gavin.m.seddon@man.ac.uk>
To: "Giacomo Mulas" <gmulas@ca.astro.it>
Cc: "Dr Gavin Seddon" <gavin.m.seddon@manchester.ac.uk>; "Mike Dobbs" 
<spam@mdobbs.com>; <debian-amd64@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 6:41 AM
Subject: Re: apt-get error


> Hi,
> I must install the "locales" package manually.  Which do you recommend?
>
> On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 16:09 +0200, Giacomo Mulas wrote:
> > On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Dr Gavin Seddon wrote:
> >
> > > list
> > > 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
> >
> > it's called "locales", not "locale", it's just a typo.
> >
> > bye,
> > Giacomo