how to work around the locale breakage

[Micah J. Cowan]

On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 01:02:33AM +0200, Christof Petig wrote:
> In case you happen to depend on a working locale in edgy the following
> steps did help me:
> 
>  - cd /tmp
>  - apt-get source -b glibc    (takes some time and storage)
>  - mkdir -p /usr/local/lib/locale
>  - cp -r
> /tmp/glibc-2.4/debian/locales-all/usr/lib/locales-all/de_DE.utf8
> /usr/local/lib/locale/de_DE.utf8
>  - export LOCPATH=/usr/local/lib/locale (or put it into /etc/environment)
> 
> IMO actually helping people would be preferable to telling them to go
> away (not use edgy in this case).

This is not the list for discussing bugs, however. What the OP was
actually told to do is use a more appropriate list, if you'll review the
thread.

I haven't been here long, but it seems this list has a relatively high
noise-to-signal level in that regard: everything's been on-topic for
Ubuntu, but a very significant portion is much more appropriate for
ubuntu-users. Is it time to consider moderation? This job could also
include automatic redirection of appropriate messages to ubuntu-users,
coupled with a notification to the original author...

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Micah J. Cowan
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