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:

• libc-l10n

References

• locales-all website

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.