On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 08:24:08PM +0000, Michael Fothergill wrote: [Please trim your quotes]
> OK I ran apt-get install base-config > > localhost:/home/mikef# apt-get install base-config > E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11 Resource temporarily > unavailable) > E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another > process using it? > localhost:/home/mikef# apt-get install base-config > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree... Done > Package base-config is not available, but is referred to by another package. > This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or > is only available from another source > However the following packages replace it: > locales belocs-locales-bin > E: Package base-config has no installation candidate > > base-config supposedly doesn't exist, but something called locales does. > Sounds Spanish..... has anyone used it? I hope I haven't fallen for the old YHBT. :-( apt-cache is your friend ... man apt-cache apt-cache show locales [..] Replaces: base-config, ... [..] -- Chris. ====== " ... the official version cannot be abandoned because the implication of rejecting it is far too disturbing: that we are subject to a government conspiracy of `X-Files' proportions and insidiousness." Letter to the LA Times Magazine, September 18, 2005. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
