Re: does apt-setup exist?
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 08:24:08PM +0000, Michael Fothergill wrote:
[Please trim your quotes]
> OK I ran apt-get install base-config
>
> localhost:/home/mikef# apt-get install base-config
> E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11 Resource temporarily
> unavailable)
> E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another
> process using it?
> localhost:/home/mikef# apt-get install base-config
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> Package base-config is not available, but is referred to by another package.
> This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
> is only available from another source
> However the following packages replace it:
> locales belocs-locales-bin
> E: Package base-config has no installation candidate
>
> base-config supposedly doesn't exist, but something called locales does.
> Sounds Spanish..... has anyone used it?
I hope I haven't fallen for the old YHBT. :-(
apt-cache is your friend ... man apt-cache
apt-cache show locales
[..]
Replaces: base-config, ...
[..]
--
Chris.
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" ... the official version cannot be abandoned because the implication of
rejecting it is far too disturbing: that we are subject to a government
conspiracy of `X-Files' proportions and insidiousness."
Letter to the LA Times Magazine, September 18, 2005.
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