I noticed I have several unneeded locales installed, for example, firefox-locale-
. I only need one locale.
How to remove all the rest?
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I noticed I have several unneeded locales installed, for example, firefox-locale-
. I only need one locale.
How to remove all the rest?
Best Answer
First type the
locale
command to print-out your current locale configuration. Also you can uselocale -a
to display a list of all available locales.Cleaning up unused locales
Install
localepurge
to remove any unwanted languages, while choosing the ones you want to keep. Note that this method will not change the locales settings on your system. It will just purge the locales you have not selected. Use at your own risk.After that, you could reboot or try to run
. /etc/default/locale
.To reconfigure this, simply enter the following in terminal:
Another way answered here is to
sudo locale-gen --purge <locales YOU WANT TO KEEP>
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