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Re: debconf problem



On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 08:00:16PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I am trying to use debconf to setup some other packages from within a meta 
> package.
> 
> 
> I have grabbed the desired debconf setting with 
> 
> debconf-get-selections | grep -i locale
> 
> I get back 
> 
> locales locales/locales_to_be_generated multiselect     en_AU ISO-8859-1, 
> en_AU.UTF-8 UTF-8, en_GB ISO-8859-1, en_GB.ISO-8859-15 ISO-8859-15, en_GB.UTF-8 
> UTF-8, en_US ISO-8859-1, en_US.ISO-8859-15 ISO-8859-15, en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
> 
> 
> on the destination machine i tried
> 
> echo "locales locales/locales_to_be_generated multiselect     en_AU ISO-8859-1, 
> en_AU.UTF-8 UTF-8, en_GB ISO-8859-1, en_GB.ISO-8859-15 ISO-8859-15, en_GB.UTF-8 
> UTF-8, en_US ISO-8859-1, en_US.ISO-8859-15 ISO-8859-15, en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8" | 
> debconf-set-selection
> 
> but I get an error
> 
> warning: Unknown type en_AU.UTF-8, skipping line 1
> 
> no win the man page for debconf-set-selection it reacons this will work
> debconf-get-selections | ssh newhost debconf-set-selections
> 
> I guess I doing the above but just for locales

okay ignore this my cut and paste wasn't working properly, some space had been 
chopped off!
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> 
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> 03/23/2002
> Lima, Peru



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