How to Install and Uninstall locales Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 12,2024

1. Install "locales" package

Please follow the guidance below to install locales on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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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 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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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 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: locales
Architecture: all
Version: 2.23-0ubuntu11.3
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: 13688
Depends: libc-bin (>> 2.23), debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0
Breaks: libc-bin (<< 2.23)
Replaces: libc-bin (<< 2.23), manpages-fr-extra (<< 20141022)
Filename: pool/main/g/glibc/locales_2.23-0ubuntu11.3_all.deb
Size: 3196636
MD5sum: 2e6f13632e329a40d4c44982696d160f
SHA1: 8ded280596fbb5cdc369b36da9ea416e2e55294a
SHA256: a347d902b853c627a18dba36ce14edf75b047170a12ce31588e0e7f7b01b7033
SHA512: 21657ea550d4ad5224404179d64f95abb31b2a0b09ff3f07b239adeea67b432ba6ac8bc627279345ea07ccc13f51203d62f757f5f46deb3fb985740806d023a5
Homepage: http://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
Supported: 5y

Package: locales
Priority: required
Section: libs
Installed-Size: 13684
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: GNU Libc Maintainers
Architecture: all
Source: glibc
Version: 2.23-0ubuntu3
Replaces: libc-bin (<< 2.23), manpages-fr-extra (<< 20141022)
Depends: libc-bin (>> 2.23), debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0
Breaks: libc-bin (<< 2.23)
Filename: pool/main/g/glibc/locales_2.23-0ubuntu3_all.deb
Size: 3213614
MD5sum: 7aaa2a055a345ba0b65467a0dbda9bd1
SHA1: eb334b58e4a9f957500fe4f76156899e1779c572
SHA256: eafd6ddb293b315f53029d1d554e471f71db54de9ae7995b8de67fecd2b3834d
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.
.
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
Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/libc.html
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
Supported: 5y
Task: minimal