How To Install liblocales-perl on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblocales-perl on Ubuntu 18.04. liblocales-perl is object-oriented access to localized CLDR information

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblocales-perl on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is liblocales-perl

liblocales-perl is:

Locales is a Perl library providing an object-oriented interface to a particular locale, in order to obtain CLDR language and territory information from it.

There are three methods to install liblocales-perl on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install liblocales-perl Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install liblocales-perl using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install liblocales-perl

Install liblocales-perl Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install liblocales-perl using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install liblocales-perl

Install liblocales-perl 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 liblocales-perl using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install liblocales-perl

How To Uninstall liblocales-perl on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the liblocales-perl package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove liblocales-perl

Uninstall liblocales-perl And Its Dependencies

To uninstall liblocales-perl and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove liblocales-perl

Remove liblocales-perl Configurations and Data

To remove liblocales-perl configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge liblocales-perl

Remove liblocales-perl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove liblocales-perl configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liblocales-perl

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblocales-perl package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.