On Sun, 2008-05-18 at 08:26 +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > > Well, I did, although I like to know what I'm doing. The sudo etc I > > understand, but what's LANG= please? > > Did this then allow you to install the software without having to > install software that was un-authenticated? If so, then the update > grabbed the the digital signatures. > > The 'LANG=' clears the LANG environment variable. For some reason > this helps but I've never seen this myself. > > HTH, > Erik
Clearing LANG seems to prevent all the errors caused by aptitude looking for localised package sources. This may be the "right way" to do things, or maybe the error messages are spurious and I should eat my laptop. Can any .deb gods comment? -- Thanks, Sonia Hamilton http://soniahamilton.wordpress.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/soniahamilton -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
