Comment 8 for bug 156913

Donald Rogers:

 > Synaptic reinstalled language-pack-eo, but that made no noticeable
 > difference. /usr/lib/locale/eo_XX.utf8 is not in the list of installed
 > files.

 > With the other command I got the same messages as Joey got:

 > $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
 > [sudo] password for donald:
 > Generating locales...
 > en_AU.UTF-8... done
 > etc
 > en_ZW.UTF-8... done
 > eo_XX.UTF-8... cannot open locale definition file `eo_XX': No such
 > file or directory
 > failed
 > Generation complete.

Strange. I just did:

   sudo apt-get purge language-pack-eo

That removed all those files. Then I did:

   sudo apt-get install language-pack-eo

I got:

   Reading package lists... Done
   Building dependency tree
   Reading state information... Done
   The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
required:
     libqof1 libgda2-3 libgda2-common
   Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
   The following extra packages will be installed:
     language-pack-eo-base
   The following NEW packages will be installed:
     language-pack-eo language-pack-eo-base
   0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
   Need to get 0B/335kB of archives.
   After unpacking 1290kB of additional disk space will be used.
   Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
   Selecting previously deselected package language-pack-eo-base.
   (Reading database ... 157370 files and directories currently installed.)
   Unpacking language-pack-eo-base (from
.../language-pack-eo-base_1%3a7.10+20071012_all.deb) ...
   Selecting previously deselected package language-pack-eo.
   Unpacking language-pack-eo (from
.../language-pack-eo_1%3a7.10+20071012_all.deb) ...
   Setting up language-pack-eo (1:7.10+20071012) ...
   Setting up language-pack-eo-base (1:7.10+20071012) ...
   Generating locales...
     eo_XX.UTF-8... done
   Generation complete.

And the Esperanto locale files reappeared.

I'm on Ubuntu 7.10 (Gusty Gibbon).

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Bertilo Wennergren <http://bertilow.com>