Dapper Drake - Error when running dist-upgrade after a fresh install

Jason Riker jasonrkr at charter.net
Thu Dec 22 03:37:36 UTC 2005


Hello All.  I've just installed Dapper Flight One on my system and
receive the following error when I do an initial 'apt-get dist-upgrade'.
Can someone help me figure out how to correct this?

Thank you.

Jason

Error
----------------------------
dpkg: xmkmf: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you request:
 xutils depends on xmkmf.
(Reading database ... 57025 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing xmkmf ...
(Reading database ... 57020 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace locales 2.3.5-1ubuntu12
(using .../locales_2.3.7-1_all.deb) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst: line
5: /var/lib/locales/supported.d/local: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/locales_2.3.7-1_all.deb
(--unpack):
 subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: considering removing locales in favour of
language-pack-en-base ...
dpkg: no, cannot remove locales (--auto-deconfigure will help):
 ubuntu-minimal depends on locales
  locales is to be removed.
dpkg: regarding .../language-pack-en-base_20051220_all.deb containing
language-pack-en-base:
 language-pack-en-base conflicts with locales (<< 2.3.6)
  locales (version 2.3.5-1ubuntu12) is installed.
dpkg: error
processing /var/cache/apt/archives/language-pack-en-base_20051220_all.deb (--unpack):
 conflicting packages - not installing language-pack-en-base
dpkg: considering removing locales in favour of
language-pack-gnome-en-base ...
dpkg: no, cannot remove locales (--auto-deconfigure will help):
 ubuntu-minimal depends on locales
  locales is to be removed.
dpkg: regarding .../language-pack-gnome-en-base_20051220_all.deb
containing language-pack-gnome-en-base:
 language-pack-gnome-en-base conflicts with locales (<< 2.3.6)
  locales (version 2.3.5-1ubuntu12) is installed.
dpkg: error
processing /var/cache/apt/archives/language-pack-gnome-en-base_20051220_all.deb (--unpack):
 conflicting packages - not installing language-pack-gnome-en-base
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/locales_2.3.7-1_all.deb
 /var/cache/apt/archives/language-pack-en-base_20051220_all.deb
 /var/cache/apt/archives/language-pack-gnome-en-base_20051220_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)





More information about the ubuntu-users mailing list