Colin, Thanks for the clarification of some of the jargon. I suspected I knew what the terms meant, but when confronted with a complex situation in which many terms are shakey, guessing won't do.
> > Suspecting locales needs a different version of glibc, and knowing > > that one can install multiple versions of glibc, I try: > > One cannot install multiple versions of glibc, at least not using the > Debian package management system. Aha! However, it's legit as far as linux is concerned, isn't it? I believe I've done this before successfully. > What does 'dpkg -l libc6 locales' say? Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-==============-==============-============================================ ii libc6 2.2.5-11.2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone in locales <none> (no description available) Locales for stable depends on glibc-2.2.5-11.5. How I managed to end up with libc6-2.2.5-11.2 escapes me, but that's what I have. I may have messed things up when trying to install an untested application (Scribus) that may have required a newer version of libc6. When I get back to Scribus installation, I may be lucky and be able to create a symlink to 2.2.5-11.5 for it, but if that fails, I suppose I'll have to download and compile source for the newer libc6 and use it in parallel with the 2.2.5-11.5 version. > > $ sudo aptitude install glibc=2.2.5 > > ... > > Unable to find version "2.2.5" for the package "glibc" > > You can't invent version numbers and expect them to work! :) Also, it's > "libc6" rather than "glibc". Sorry about the imaginary version number ;-). With the right name and number in hand, I just now successfully installed libc6-2.2.5-11.5, and then, not surprisingly, was able to install locales-2.2.5-11.5 as well. I configured locales with en-US.utf-8, but when I next ran $ sudo locale, all I get for LANG is LANG=POSIX. I suspect I need to reboot for locale to be reset. In any case, the command $ sudo dpkg -l locales now reports that locales is installed. I assume I must reboot in order to test if enUS/utf-8 is now default. I'm optimistic it will be. Thanks for the help. Haines Brown -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
