Re: locales/glibc dependency problem

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 02:51:38PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 02:27:34PM +0100, Erik Erskine wrote:
> > 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.

... he says, lying. It's also testing's version.

You should just be able to install libc6 2.2.5-6.

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]