Re: a Bug?

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

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On 04/16/07 17:34, Sun.Botu wrote:
> When I set locales,it says
> drivel@BotuSun:~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
> perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
> perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
>       LANGUAGE = (unset),
>       LC_ALL = (unset),
>       LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
>   are supported and installed on your system.
> perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
> locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
> locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
> locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
> /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: locales is broken or not fully installed
> 
> 
> then I reinstall the locales,but ...
> 
> BotuSun:/home/drivel# apt-get install locales
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
> or been moved out of Incoming.
> 
> Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
> the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
> that package should be filed.
> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
> 
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> locales: Depends: glibc-2.5-1 but it is not installable
> E: Broken packages
> BotuSun:/home/drivel# apt-get install glibc-2.5-1
> 
> 
> so i have to install glibc-2.5-1,mygod...
> 
> otuSun:/home/drivel# apt-get install glibc-2.5-1
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> Package glibc-2.5-1 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
> E: Package glibc-2.5-1 has no installation candidate
> 
> 
> how can I do NOW?
> and this is a bug?

It seems that you have not updated your package cache.

- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!

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