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Re: Passing in sid



On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 04:30:12PM +0100, Shams Fantar wrote:
> Andrei Popescu wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 09:44:17PM +0100, Shams Fantar wrote:
>>   
>>> Hi !
>>>
>>> I try to pass a machine from etch to sid, so, I've changed the 
>>> sources.list file, all updates were been done.
>>>
>>> But now, I've some problems.
>>>     
>>
>> [snip locales problems]
>>
>> Welcome to sid, these are just typical troubles which you can expect 
>> anytime. I'm not sure what the "correct" solution would have been in this 
>> case, but I just installed locales from experimental (which also pulled 
>> libc from experimental), but I don't mind living on the edge ;)
>>
>>   
>
> Is it a bug for the 'locales' package ? Because I wonder if install a 
> package from experimental is a solution. What do you think about ? But I 
> tried :
>
> # dpkg -i locales_2.7-0exp8_all.deb
> (Reading database ... 56391 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to replace locales 2.7-0exp8 (using locales_2.7-0exp8_all.deb) ...
> Unpacking replacement locales ...
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of locales:
> locales depends on glibc-2.7-1; however:
>  Package glibc-2.7-1 is not installed.
> dpkg: error processing locales (--install):
> dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> locales
>
> Of course, the glibc-2.7.1 is required, it's a virtual package, what to do ?

You shouldn't install packages with dpkg directly. Instead add a source 
for experimental in your sources.list and use

aptitude -t experimental install locales

That is, if you want to try my solution. There is always more than one 
way ...

Regards,
Andrei
-- 
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)

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