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Eonil
Asked: 2011-08-23 00:29:29 +0800 CST

How can I uninstall a locale via command-line?

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I have 5 unused locales on my system. How can I remove them via command line? I have use localepurge but it didn't work.

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  1. Best Answer

    You can list locales with

    localedef --list-archive

    or with

    locale -a

    Corresponding file size is given by

    ls -lh /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive

    To remove unused locales you can do

    sudo locale-gen --purge it_IT.UTF-8 en_US.UTF-8 && echo Success!

    where it_IT.UTF-8 and en_US.UTF-8 are the only two locales I want. The && echo "Success!" at end is useful because locale-gen does not report errors if an unavailable or wrong locale is passed on command line.

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