FS#28350 - [uxterm] does not work on freshly-installed Arch system

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Don Allen (donallen) - Friday, 10 February 2012, 12:51 GMT
Last edited by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Sunday, 20 May 2012, 09:38 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan de Groot (JGC)
Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
uxterm will not run on a freshly-installed Arch system, because the locale en_US.UTF-8 is not available by default. When this failure occurs, uxterm attempts to use xmessage to report the problem, which is not available by default and apparently not a dependency of the xterm package, which it should be.

Additional info:
* package version(s)
extra/xterm 278-1
* config and/or log files etc.


Steps to reproduce:
Install Arch. Install X. Install extra/xterm. Bring up X. Try to run uxterm.

Further comments:
This can be worked-around by editing /etc/locale.gen and running locale-gen, which I found out about by googling. At the very least, there ought to be a message when extra/xterm is installed that uxterm depends on the UTF-8 locale being available and perhaps a pointer to the locale discussion in the Arch documentation. And xorg-xmessage should be a dependency of the xterm package.
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Closed by  Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Sunday, 20 May 2012, 09:38 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't fix
Comment by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Sunday, 20 May 2012, 09:38 GMT
We could add xorg-xmessage as an optional dependency. But why don't you just run xterm instead of uxterm?

Any basic Arch installation is know have no additional locale preconfigured. I won't fix this - this not a real issue.

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