libc6 dependency probl;em in dapper

[Tony Arnold]

Derek,

Derek Broughton wrote:

>>Thsi nearly worked. There seems to be a problem installing locales now!
>>See previous post.
>>
> 
> bummer!  But getting libc6 working is the really vital part.

That's what I thought!

>>dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/locales_2.3.11_all.deb
>>trying to overwrite '/usr/share/i18n/locales/en_AU', which is also in
>>package language-pack-en-base
> 
> 
> These are easy.  
> 
> dpkg --force-overwrite -i /var/cache/apt/archives/locales_2.3.11_all.deb
> 
> Then, either don't worry about it, or find out which of those packages is
> more recent, and if it's language-pack-en-base, you may want to do the same
> with it, to force it back to using the most recent .../locales/en_AU

That's useful information. In the mean time, I lost patience and have
gone for a complete re-install from the Flight-5 CD. It's a trial
system, so I'm not losing anything really.

Thanks for your help though. If I hit similar problems again I've got
something to try now!

Regards,
Tony.
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