Comment 1 for bug 316840

thomas@cixi:~$ apt-file search d3lphin.mo
[...]
language-pack-kde-fr-base: /usr/share/locale-langpack/fr/LC_MESSAGES/d3lphin.mo
[...]

thomas@cixi:~$ dpkg -l language-pack-kde-fr-base
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-f/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/t-aWait/T-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Nom Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii language-pack- 1:8.04+2009010 KDE translations for language French

thomas@cixi:~$ LC_ALL=C ls -l /usr/share/locale-langpack/fr/LC_MESSAGES/d3lphin.mo
ls: cannot access /usr/share/locale-langpack/fr/LC_MESSAGES/d3lphin.mo: No such file or directory

thomas@cixi:~$ LC_ALL=C sudo apt-get install --reinstall language-pack-kde-fr-base
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/3032kB of archives.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
(Reading database ... 159801 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace language-pack-kde-fr-base 1:8.04+20090105 (using .../language-pack-kde-fr-base_1%3a8.04+20090105_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement language-pack-kde-fr-base ...
Setting up language-pack-kde-fr-base (1:8.04+20090105) ...

thomas@cixi:~$ LC_ALL=C ls -l /usr/share/locale-langpack/fr/LC_MESSAGES/d3lphin.mo
ls: cannot access /usr/share/locale-langpack/fr/LC_MESSAGES/d3lphin.mo: No such file or directory

Seems like something's missing.