Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 07:28:10 -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > > I believe I'm getting closer. > > > > I can't reinstall locales because with locales broken, I can't install > > any packages. Is it possible to do a package installation without its > > calling locales? > > Did you already try to reconfigure the "locales" package like this: > > LANG=C LC_ALL=C dpkg-reconfigure locales
Unfortunately, that syntax is not supported on my machine. Perhaps I misunderstood it. > If the above does not work then you can check if /etc/locale.gen > contains a line for en_US.UTF-8 and then you can run > > locale-gen > > directly to create the localization data. (See also the comments in > /etc/locale.gen.) That seems to have done it. Thanks for the clarification. Incidentally, my locale.gen file is not commented for some reason. -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]