How To Install language-pack-ar-base on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install language-pack-ar-base
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is language-pack-ar-base
language-pack-ar-base is:
Translation data for all supported packages for: Arabic
This package provides the bulk of translation data and is updated only seldom. language-pack-ar provides frequent translation updates, so you should install this as well.
Package: language-pack-ar-base Architecture: all Version: 1:20.04+20200416 Priority: optional Section: translations Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Language pack maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 724 Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.16.1) Depends: locales (>= 2.3.6), language-pack-ar (>= 1:20.04+20200416) Conflicts: language-pack-ar (« 1:20.04+20200416) Replaces: language-pack-ar (« 1:20.04+20200416), language-pack-ar-base (« 1:20.04+20200416), language-pack-gnome-ar (« 1:20.04+20200416), language-pack-gnome-ar-base (« 1:20.04+20200416), language-pack-kde-ar (« 1:20.04+20200416), language-pack-kde-ar-base (« 1:20.04+20200416) Filename: pool/main/l/language-pack-ar-base/language-pack-ar-base_20.04+20200416_all.deb Size: 168952 MD5sum: f3cbc8047d8af5e5856b68267eacd248 SHA1: 754337eef138b00e64cdb4b75972e18513ce0cbe SHA256: 0e8e0dcac050560a33454411b1ae3e7b49f018faf11aabf7b16b661249ff0932 Description-en: translations for language Arabic Translation data for all supported packages for: Arabic
This package provides the bulk of translation data and is updated only seldom. language-pack-ar provides frequent translation updates, so you should install this as well.
There are three methods to install language-pack-ar-base
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install language-pack-ar-base Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install language-pack-ar-base
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install language-pack-ar-base
Install language-pack-ar-base Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install language-pack-ar-base
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install language-pack-ar-base
Install language-pack-ar-base Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install language-pack-ar-base
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install language-pack-ar-base
How To Uninstall language-pack-ar-base on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the language-pack-ar-base
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove language-pack-ar-base
Uninstall language-pack-ar-base And Its Dependencies
To uninstall language-pack-ar-base
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove language-pack-ar-base
Remove language-pack-ar-base Configurations and Data
To remove language-pack-ar-base
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge language-pack-ar-base
Remove language-pack-ar-base configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove language-pack-ar-base
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge language-pack-ar-base
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install language-pack-ar-base
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.