installing alsa on debian
Hi, I want to install alsa on my debian system. I have downloaded alsa-base_0.9+0beta12-3_all.deb. When I try to install this files by doing :
"dpkg -i alsa-base_0.9+0beta12-3_all.deb"
I get the fillowing error :
</alsa/alsa-base_0.9+0beta12-3_all.deb ;echo RESULT=$?
(Reading database ... 107307 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace alsa-base 0.9+0beta12-3 (using .../alsa-base_0.9+0beta12-3_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement alsa-base ...
Setting up alsa-base (0.9+0beta12-3) ...
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = "nl",
LANG = "C"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog
debconf: (Dialog frontend will not work on a dumb terminal, an emacs shell buffer, or without a controlling terminal.)
debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = "nl",
LANG = "C"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
dpkg: error processing alsa-base (--install):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
alsa-base
RESULT=1
Whats going on ? I'm new to debian. Please help me.
ps 1) I tried to install alsa with the source tar.gz files. I got compile errors.
wavefront.c:2270:85: warning: pasting ""snd: "" and "LOGNAME" does not give a valid preprocessing token
wavefront.c:2278:71: warning: pasting ""snd: "" and "LOGNAME" does not give a valid preprocessing token
make[2]: *** [wavefront.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/sohail/apps/alsa-driver-0.5.9d/lowlevel/isa'
make[1]: *** [all] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/sohail/apps/alsa-driver-0.5.9d/lowlevel'
make: *** [compile] Error 1
ps 2) please help this time
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