How To Install language-pack-ja-base on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install language-pack-ja-base on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is language-pack-ja-base
language-pack-ja-base is:
Translation data for all supported packages for: Japanese
This package provides the bulk of translation data and is updated only seldom. language-pack-ja provides frequent translation updates, so you should install this as well. Task: xubuntu-live, ubuntustudio-dvd-live
Package: language-pack-ja-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: 7443 Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.16.1) Depends: locales (>= 2.3.6), language-pack-ja (>= 1:20.04+20200416) Conflicts: language-pack-ja (« 1:20.04+20200416) Replaces: language-pack-gnome-ja (« 1:20.04+20200416), language-pack-gnome-ja-base (« 1:20.04+20200416), language-pack-ja (« 1:20.04+20200416), language-pack-ja-base (« 1:20.04+20200416), language-pack-kde-ja (« 1:20.04+20200416), language-pack-kde-ja-base (« 1:20.04+20200416) Filename: pool/main/l/language-pack-ja-base/language-pack-ja-base_20.04+20200416_all.deb Size: 1639256 MD5sum: d30d57dca0ed133a00a8ae19448fada8 SHA1: 865465bc6f7b624ba655f46fae8beb7f447a662f SHA256: b16d262a65562455d947a98a45e1c64278fb254c3b8da5d0f2a0a0b772636279 Description-en: translations for language Japanese Translation data for all supported packages for: Japanese
This package provides the bulk of translation data and is updated only seldom. language-pack-ja provides frequent translation updates, so you should install this as well. Task: xubuntu-live, ubuntustudio-dvd-live
There are three methods to install language-pack-ja-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-ja-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-ja-base using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install language-pack-ja-base
Install language-pack-ja-base Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install language-pack-ja-base using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install language-pack-ja-base
Install language-pack-ja-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-ja-base using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install language-pack-ja-base
How To Uninstall language-pack-ja-base on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the language-pack-ja-base package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove language-pack-ja-base
Uninstall language-pack-ja-base And Its Dependencies
To uninstall language-pack-ja-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-ja-base
Remove language-pack-ja-base Configurations and Data
To remove language-pack-ja-base configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge language-pack-ja-base
Remove language-pack-ja-base configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove language-pack-ja-base configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge language-pack-ja-base
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install language-pack-ja-base package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
