Bug#188159: Acknowledgement (es_EC.ISO-8859-1...LC_MONETARY: Error during postinstall config => corrupt installation of package)
Hi,
At 10 Apr 2003 23:22:28 +0200,
Andreas Neudecker wrote:
> > > The only fix for a successful installation seemingly is to edit
> > > /etc/locale.gen (i.e. comment-out the line for the delinquent, es_EC).
> > > Then the installation will succeed. But this is certainly not obvious
> > > for the average user, is it? (Also a user of es_EC would be quite
> > > unhappy, i guess.)
> >
> > Try to use "dpkg-reconfigure locales", then simply remove the check
> > es_EC from locales debconf.
>
> This was the first thing I tried after the upgrade of the package
> aborted and left the package in corrupted state. But dpkg-reconfigure
> failed with a message saying the package was not installed properly and
> I should first install it fully. This is when I edited /etc/locale.gen
> to be able to install. After that, I of course reconfigured to make the
> appropriate selection of locales register with debconf (or so).
Ah, that's right.
Hmm. OK, I decide to fix es_EC with the change for monetary as "USD".
I contact to the Ecuador embassy in Japan
(http://www.ecuador-embassy.or.jp/), and the member of the embassy
staff said in 2000 Ecuador change their currency symbol from ECS to
USD. This web page also says now Ecuador uses USD, not ECS.
> > > But my mail regarding the "important" setting was rather about the
> > > setting itself [...] I just thought, I should
> > > report it so it could be fixed.
> >
> > Ah, I see... I misunderstood you set as "important".
>
> Well, sorry. Maybe I should have changed the subject, when I wrote my
> first mail to you.
No problem! :)
Regards,
-- gotom
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