При попытке переустановит пакет сообщает:
While preparing for installation:
package kde-i18n-ru-3.5.9-alt1 is already installed
Если пакет установит руками, через APT, то переустановка проходит успешно:
[root@roman ru]# apt-get --reinstall install glibc-locales
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 removed and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/13.2MB of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Committing changes...
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Done.