How to Install and Uninstall locales Package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Last updated: November 07,2024

1. Install "locales" package

Please follow the steps below to install locales on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


    
        
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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 Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


    
        
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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 Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Package: locales
Architecture: all
Version: 2.34-0ubuntu3
Priority: important
Section: libs
Source: glibc
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: GNU Libc Maintainers
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 17052
Depends: libc-bin (>> 2.34), debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0
Filename: pool/main/g/glibc/locales_2.34-0ubuntu3_all.deb
Size: 4235200
MD5sum: f5e8051bb35114713eebcb9cb6484a6e
SHA1: 5296ced3e47fbe24f4ee2bdbd401aa8ef4359c52
SHA256: 4ebd33d7ec280af24a92592e3787d120f4a4374486ad0a4ace43ea2516bf8249
SHA512: e148e87ba630959d24766cb281e456964a7b3c60c783823f2439aab48b6e471eeb2b5267867e6bfb6cd08ee644dd728beb29650edd91f58e4327f71d7a4e0283
Homepage: https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/libc.html
Description-en: 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: 68ccf846a4935e541c4a717fc0a1f3e3
Task: minimal
Original-Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/glibc-team/glibc
Original-Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/glibc-team/glibc.git