How to Install and Uninstall locales Package on Ubuntu 23.10 (Mantic Minotaur)

Last updated: May 09,2024

1. Install "locales" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install locales on Ubuntu 23.10 (Mantic Minotaur)


    
        
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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 steps below to uninstall locales on Ubuntu 23.10 (Mantic Minotaur):


    
        
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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 Ubuntu 23.10 (Mantic Minotaur)

Package: locales
Architecture: all
Version: 2.38-1ubuntu6.1
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: 16900
Depends: libc-bin (>> 2.38), debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0
Filename: pool/main/g/glibc/locales_2.38-1ubuntu6.1_all.deb
Size: 4239110
MD5sum: 514b8d6d33a5a74d5470f5648a088d0c
SHA1: d0371839321935035e908b0da8170e69079ed3c8
SHA256: 46069c7405f4c9a69fd2cd3a1fe9b16b0356bdf8ff76e0e6087c0932dfdae641
SHA512: 1d3d5fe15f2b8445bbeca6ab69c7f9e375b4a39af548f84a994bbabaffa5b36ec1b8d063eef3de0875123ed5550bc45a50bf396175b1f5b37bbcffd48b1eb597
Homepage: https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/libc.html
Description: GNU C Library: National Language (locale) data [support]
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

Package: locales
Architecture: all
Version: 2.38-1ubuntu6
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: 16900
Depends: libc-bin (>> 2.38), debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0
Filename: pool/main/g/glibc/locales_2.38-1ubuntu6_all.deb
Size: 4240478
MD5sum: 6c994f0814d0dd841470c6a527834e63
SHA1: 37638047eb199322f21ed526cb8295db2dcede0e
SHA256: 730e5a3c0919073f345dccc5d3c32b109ebfd8aeb4c5d548f4150902c3c179cd
SHA512: 653045fd93470c2500da859f920e2a996848dc336713660f4308cf204532a7b845f3d4973e3c86f6159925db8b0b41ea9862dd856cbcf545fb066baa6006fd21
Homepage: https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/libc.html
Description: GNU C Library: National Language (locale) data [support]
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