I have a mixed libc5/libc6 system that is fairly up-to-date with unstable. I'm having trouble compiling KDE from source which I think relates to the fact that I don't have a locales package. If I try selecting locales, I get the following:
_* Std admin locales Locale data files and utilities. **- Req base libc5 The Linux C library version 5 (run-time libraries U*- Opt libs tcl76 The Tool Command Language (TCL) v7.6 - libc5 Run- U*- Opt libs tk42 The Tk toolkit for TCL and X11 v4.2 - libc5 Run-T **- Xtr non-free xsnow Snow in your X server **- Std mail biff a mail notification tool **- Opt contrib gimp-plugins A set of fairly "standard" plug-ins for the GIMP. **- Req base sysklogd Kernel and system logging daemons **- Opt non-free pine An e-mail reader with MIME and IMAP support. **- Opt net wu-ftpd A powerful replacement for the standard ftpd locales not installed; install (was: purge). Standard libc5 conflicts with locales (<= 2.0.4-1) Without locales installed on my system, however, the make bombs out in the middle of building kdebase complaining that it can't find "msgfmt", which I believe, from speaking with friends with RedHat, is part of locales support. What do I do here? I'm too deeply into libc6 to back that out. I can't live without the libc5 apps that locales disagrees with above. Can I fall back to an older locales? Can I install locales anyway? Finally, I had one other little snag with KDE. I installed qt-dev in with a --force-depends in spite of the fact that it said it required libc5-dev. I do have libc5-altdev on my system. Is this OK? Ben. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .