Re: apt-get error

[Giacomo Mulas <gmulas@ca.astro.it>]

On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Dr Gavin Seddon wrote:

> Hi, I am stuck in another viscious one,
> 'dpkg --remove belocs-locales-data
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of belocs-locales-data:
> belocs-locales-bin depends on belocs-locales-data.
> localeconf depends on locales; however:
>  Package locales is not installed.
>  Package belocs-locales-data which provides locales is to be removed.
> dpkg: error processing belocs-locales-data (--remove):
> dependency problems - not removing
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> belocs-locales-data
> debian1:/home/mbpssgms# dpkg --remove belocs-locales-bin
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of belocs-locales-bin:
> belocs-locales-data depends on belocs-locales-bin.
> dpkg: error processing belocs-locales-bin (--remove):
> dependency problems - not removing
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> belocs-locales-bin'
>
> Can anyone help me remove this?

Ok, this is not something you should usually do, however:

dpkg --force-depends -r belocs-locales-data belocs-locales-bin

this will force removal of the offending packages; then, to install 
locales, do (I am assuming you already downlowded and have available
the locales package you want to install):

dpkg -i the_appropriate_locales_package.deb

Finally, do

dpkg-reconfigure locales

to properly configure which locales you want installed in your system.
However, how could you possibly put your system in such an inconsistent
state? This should never happen unless you fiddle very heavily with
dangerous tools, such as hand-using dpkg with --force options as 
above, or trying to remove essential packages...

Bye
Giacomo

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