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Ryan
Asked: 2014-06-13 23:54:45 +0800 CST

locale-gen with purge does not work

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I use the --purge option to remove existing locales before generating new one, but seems cannot remove existing locales?

e.g.

# locale-gen --purge en_US
# locale -a
C
en_AG
en_AU.utf8
en_BW.utf8
en_US
en_US.utf8
POSIX
zh_TW
ubuntu

4 Answers

    1. Clean /usr/lib/locale/ (delete everything, do a backup if you are afraid).
    2. Delete unneeded locale from /etc/default/locale file (do not delete this file, edit and delete the locales)
    3. Delete unneeded locale from /var/lib/locales/supported.d/* files (do not delete this files, edit them and delete the locales)
    4. Regenerate locales (locale-gen --purge).

    Also you can try localepurge as Juice sad earlier.

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  2. sudo edit /etc/default/locale

    Edit the LANGUAGE variable to remove whatever language that needs removed. Then reboot.

    sudo apt-get install localepurge

    After that you can run localepurge to remove old locale files.

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  3. Sure? you have run it as root or using sudo:

    sudo locale-gen --purge en_US

    Because it doesn't raise any error if you run it as regular user

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  4. Just do the following command if it is Ubuntu 18.04:

    sudo apt-get purge -y language-pack-en-base
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