How to Install and Uninstall locales Package on Debian 11 (Bullseye)

Last updated: May 18,2024

1. Install "locales" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to install locales on Debian 11 (Bullseye)


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

This guide covers the steps necessary to uninstall locales on Debian 11 (Bullseye):


    
        
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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 11 (Bullseye)

Package: locales
Source: glibc
Version: 2.31-13+deb11u3
Installed-Size: 16014
Maintainer: GNU Libc Maintainers
Architecture: all
Depends: libc-bin (>> 2.31), libc-l10n (>> 2.31), 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_2.31-13+deb11u3_all.deb
Size: 4083600
MD5sum: c0b3b41368aa39e3db16a339d427daf5
SHA256: b54e50cc13a492154c7c00793c4be0deabdc9e42ee12ecb54e76be3a19dc250c