On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 02:27:34PM +0100, Erik Erskine wrote: > I'm having difficulty installing the locales package (which dselect > wants to remove). It complains about glibc package not being available. > I've unpacking the deb file, and it's control file shows that it is > dependent on glibc-2.2.5-6: > > Package: locales > Version: 2.2.5-6 > Section: base > Priority: standard > Architecture: all > Depends: glibc-2.2.5-6, debconf (>= 0.2.26)
What version of libc6 do you have installed? libc6 2.2.5-6 Provides: glibc-2.2.5-6, etc. > However, there is no glibc package, and in the packages search results > (http://packages.debian.org/testing/base/locales.html) the locales > package is shown to be dependent on libc6. > > At the moment I'm having to force dpkg to install this, and also the JDK > from Blackdown, which depends on it. > > My /etc/apt/sources.list contains these lines: > > deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib > non-free Then you shouldn't be getting locales 2.2.5-6, which is stable's version. Do you have anything else in sources.list? -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
