How to Install and Uninstall locales Package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Last updated: May 07,2024

1. Install "locales" package

Please follow the instructions below to install locales on Debian 10 (Buster)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                locales
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "locales" package

Here is a brief guide to show you how to uninstall locales on Debian 10 (Buster):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                locales
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the locales package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Package: locales
Source: glibc
Version: 2.28-10+deb10u1
Installed-Size: 16107
Maintainer: GNU Libc Maintainers
Architecture: all
Replaces: manpages-fr-extra (<< 20141022)
Depends: libc-bin (>> 2.28), libc-l10n (>> 2.28), debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0
Description: GNU C Library: National Language (locale) data [support]
Description-md5: 68ccf846a4935e541c4a717fc0a1f3e3
Homepage: https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/libc.html
Tag: admin::configuring, devel::i18n, implemented-in::c, role::app-data,
role::program, scope::utility, suite::gnu
Section: localization
Priority: standard
Filename: pool/main/g/glibc/locales_2.28-10+deb10u1_all.deb
Size: 4056868
MD5sum: 897494a1a380f6b3ac497fde9bc6af80
SHA256: 7ac14b375a823f3d4eec143029e95af39d08eca0ddfa9022a9518f11b88082b7