On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 01:19:17PM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > > > 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.
It's possible, but awkward, and there are lots of unexpected roadblocks. > > 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. Looks like you're missing security.debian.org from /etc/apt/sources.list, I think. -11.2 was in stable or maybe stable-proposed-updates at least until recently, while -11.5 is in security. > 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. It would be much easier to compile scribus from source so that it depends on the older libc6. Dependencies on libc6 are usually a property of the build, not of the source code. Symlinks between different versions of libraries are generally not a good plan. > 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. Ah, excellent. > 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. No, you don't need to reboot; just log out and log back in. (BTW, 'dpkg -l locales' doesn't need any special privileges, so you can run it as an ordinary non-root user.) Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
