How To Install glibc-minimal-langpack on CentOS 8

glibc-minimal-langpack is Minimal language packs for glibc. Minimal language packs for glibc.

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install glibc-minimal-langpack on CentOS 8.

What is glibc-minimal-langpack

This is a Meta package that is used to install minimal language packs. This package ensures you can use C, POSIX, or C.UTF-8 locales, but nothing else. It is designed for assembling a minimal system. glibc-minimal-langpack 2.28 151.el8 x86_64 56 k glibc-2.28-151.el8.src.rpm baseos Minimal language packs for glibc. http LGPLv2+ and LGPLv2+ with exceptions and GPLv2+ and GPLv2+ with exceptions and BSD and Inner-Net and ISC and Public Domain and GFDL This is a Meta package that is used to install minimal language packs. This package ensures you can use C, POSIX, or C.UTF-8 locales, but nothing else. It is designed for assembling a minimal system.

We can use yum or dnf to install glibc-minimal-langpack on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install glibc-minimal-langpack.

Install glibc-minimal-langpack on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install glibc-minimal-langpack using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install glibc-minimal-langpack

Install glibc-minimal-langpack on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install glibc-minimal-langpack using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install glibc-minimal-langpack

How To Uninstall glibc-minimal-langpack on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the glibc-minimal-langpack package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove glibc-minimal-langpack

glibc-minimal-langpack Package Contents on CentOS 8

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install glibc-minimal-langpack on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.