How to Install and Uninstall locales Package on Kali Linux

Last updated: May 18,2024

1. Install "locales" package

Here is a brief guide to show you how to install locales on Kali Linux


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

Please follow the step by step instructions below to uninstall locales on Kali Linux:


    
        
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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 Kali Linux

Package: locales
Source: glibc
Version: 2.37-12
Installed-Size: 15856
Maintainer: GNU Libc Maintainers
Architecture: all
Depends: libc-bin (>> 2.37), libc-l10n (>> 2.37), debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0
Size: 3905656
SHA256: d33315edd39b4d396abca310ce46585e6af2f0cecd3dfc6bacc8d64dc30d31e3
SHA1: c27ac98b294e20d0866e4476fa019a84409cd958
MD5sum: 7b331cbf84037f61f6cc73eda84d7969
Description: GNU C Library: National Language (locale) data [support]
Machine-readable data files, shared objects and programs used by the
C library for localization (l10n) and internationalization (i18n) support.
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This package contains tools to generate locale definitions from source
files (included in this package). It allows you to customize which
definitions actually get generated. This is a space-saver over how this
package used to be, with all locales generated by default. This created
a package that unpacked to an excess of 30 megs.
Description-md5:
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_2.37-12_all.deb