On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 01:14:00PM +0000, Glenn Becker wrote: > >OK, it seems the time has come for me to confront one of those topics I've >never bothered with: locales. The reason is that it seems I have some fouled up >locale settings (I don't know how) and that this is preventing my >system from updating. > >The system is an all-testing one, on a Dell laptop (Inspiron 4100). I >have five other operating systems functioning ok-to-great on this box. >Also, FWIW I am back using Debian after a few years' absence. > [..] >... and then a long list of KDE packages that could not be installed. >Now, when this first happened I thought "ah, it's testing and it will >eventually clear up," but this hasn't happened. Plus, most of the stuff >above has the appearance -- to me anyway -- of an error cascade, with >the locale stuff as the first snowflake in the avalanche. > >I've tried locale-setting commands from Debian Reference, but I seem to >be caught with them in a kind of Catch-22 where I can't set the locale >because the locale isn't set correctly. I suspect this is a simple >problem to fix (even though I don't know how it arose) ... can anyone >help me here? > >Let me know if more details are necessary and I will provide them - and >apologies for the length of this message. Is the `locales` package installed? /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus@therning.org http://therning.org/magnus Software is not manufactured, it is something you write and publish. Keep Europe free from software patents, we do not want censorship by patent law on written works. Finagle's Sixth Law: Don't believe in miracles -- rely on them.
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