> More complete checking gives the right explanation: > > In lowmem mode, the locale is set to C on the installed system. > > In localechooser post-base-installer, the "locales" package is *not* > installed if LOCALE=C. > > So, validlocale and locale-gen are not present on the installed > system. > > As their only point is to generate the locales, it seems that my > proposed fix is very probably correct. > > I'm currently testing it in details.
The patch seems to be correct and, with it, the lowmem install works fine. --