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REPEAT: Do NOT report bugs for outdated packages!
FS#28350 - [uxterm] does not work on freshly-installed Arch system
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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
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
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DetailsDescription:
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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Any basic Arch installation is know have no additional locale preconfigured. I won't fix this - this not a real issue.