Help! Half-baked Breezy upgrade due to locale problem!

[Ben Novack]

On 9/17/05, Ben Novack <bhn3 at pitt.edu> wrote:
> Nearly every package that the breezy upgrade tried to install gave me
> the same error:
> 
> perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
> perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
>        LANGUAGE = "en"
>        LC_ALL = (unset)
>        LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
>    are supported and installed on your system.
> perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C")
> locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
> locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
> locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
> 
> usr/bin/dpkg then always fails with an error code of 1.
> 
> So I ran dpkg-reconfigure, and it declared that "locales is broken or
> not fully installed."
> 
> So I appear to have large chunks of Breezy, large chunks of Hoary, and
> an unusable system. What can I do to get my locale set properly, and
> get everything properly moved to breezy?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ben
> 

To clarify a little: The problem seems to be that
python-wxversion_2.6.1.1ubuntu2_all wants to be installed, but that
would overwrite /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/wxversion.py, which
is also in package wxpython 2.5.3. That prevents python-wxgtk2.6 from
installing, since it depends on python-wxversion.

--Ben