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

Last updated: May 16,2024

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

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1. Install "locales-all" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install locales-all on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


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

Please follow the step by step instructions below to uninstall locales-all 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-all package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: locales-all
Source: glibc
Version: 2.36-9+deb12u4
Installed-Size: 227364
Maintainer: GNU Libc Maintainers
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc-l10n (>> 2.36)
Description: GNU C Library: Precompiled locale data
Description-md5: c360552536cba624a24a347b513939dd
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/libc.html
Section: localization
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/g/glibc/locales-all_2.36-9+deb12u4_amd64.deb
Size: 10801148
MD5sum: a0d779bc7149621c88d85b46d1b799b7
SHA256: c9b5787fecf477d105e8868896916e7605f08d1dea190e6122f5dba2d723343d