How To Install locales-all on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install locales-all
on Kali Linux.
What is locales-all
locales-all is:
This package contains the precompiled locale data for all supported locales. A better alternative is to install the locales package and only select desired locales, but it can be useful on a low-memory machine because some locale files take a lot of memory to be compiled.
There are three methods to install locales-all
on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install locales-all Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install locales-all
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install locales-all
Install locales-all Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install locales-all
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install locales-all
Install locales-all Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install locales-all
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install locales-all
How To Uninstall locales-all on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the locales-all
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove locales-all
Uninstall locales-all And Its Dependencies
To uninstall locales-all
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove locales-all
Remove locales-all Configurations and Data
To remove locales-all
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge locales-all
Remove locales-all configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove locales-all
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge locales-all
Dependencies
locales-all have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install locales-all
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.