Stephane Bortzmeyer scribbled out these words: > > [These two bugs should be merged, IMHO.] > > dpkg --remove locales > apt-get install libc6 > apt-get install locales > ..... proceed as usual Last step still needs to overwrite file in libc6, so will not install. Most people will just what to install libc6 in one step apt-get install libc6