How to Install and Uninstall locales Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: November 07,2024

You can also install and uninstall the locales on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

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1. Install "locales" package

Here is a brief guide to show you how to install locales on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


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

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall locales on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the locales package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: locales
Source: glibc
Version: 2.36-9+deb12u4
Installed-Size: 15844
Maintainer: GNU Libc Maintainers
Architecture: all
Depends: libc-bin (>> 2.36), libc-l10n (>> 2.36), 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_2.36-9+deb12u4_all.deb
Size: 3901616
MD5sum: 85ac60ccdda75dbfccd51a1d184b4c5f
SHA256: 2820a39e97db726a1d70ac7c4108953134d05073fe541d636c8badebc2a2e728