solution found:
dpkg -P locales

Robert.Wultsch@asu.edu wrote:

>I just did my normal knoppix hard drive installl and was doing a  
>apt-get update 
>apt-get upgrade 
> 
>when a while through the process i got hit with: 
> 
> 
>Setting up fontconfig (2.2.0-2) ... 
>Installing new version of config file /etc/fonts/fonts.conf ... 
>Installing new version of config file /etc/fonts/fonts.dtd ... 
>Regenerating fonts cache...done. 
> 
>Errors were encountered while processing: 
> locales 
>E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) 
>root@fearlessrogue:/home/knoppix# 
> 
>Should I be concerned? 
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