Re: locales/glibc dependency problem
On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 02:27:34PM +0100, Erik Erskine wrote:
> I'm having difficulty installing the locales package (which dselect
> wants to remove). It complains about glibc package not being available.
> I've unpacking the deb file, and it's control file shows that it is
> dependent on glibc-2.2.5-6:
>
> Package: locales
> Version: 2.2.5-6
> Section: base
> Priority: standard
> Architecture: all
> Depends: glibc-2.2.5-6, debconf (>= 0.2.26)
What version of libc6 do you have installed? libc6 2.2.5-6 Provides:
glibc-2.2.5-6, etc.
> However, there is no glibc package, and in the packages search results
> (http://packages.debian.org/testing/base/locales.html) the locales
> package is shown to be dependent on libc6.
>
> At the moment I'm having to force dpkg to install this, and also the JDK
> from Blackdown, which depends on it.
>
> My /etc/apt/sources.list contains these lines:
>
> deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
> deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib
> non-free
Then you shouldn't be getting locales 2.2.5-6, which is stable's
version. Do you have anything else in sources.list?
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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