This is because locales and glibc need to be the same version. However, glibc 2.3 doesn't build on Sparc yet. The version you need might be in testing, but I don't know. Tks, Jeff Bailey On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 07:44, nb@dagami.org wrote: > Package: locales > Version: 2.3.1-3 (not installed) > Severity: normal > > here's whate I get when trying to install locales : > > colibri:~# apt-get install locales > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have > requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable > distribution that some required packages have not yet been created > or been moved out of Incoming. > > Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that > the package is simply not installable and a bug report against > that package should be filed. > The following information may help to resolve the situation: > > Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: > locales: Depends: glibc-2.3.1-3 but it is not installable > E: Sorry, broken packages > > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: testing/unstable > Architecture: sparc > Kernel: Linux colibri 2.4.19 #1 Sat Nov 16 13:32:12 CET 2002 sparc > Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C -- Jeff Bailey <jbailey@nisa.net>
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