How To Install locales-all on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install locales-all on Ubuntu 20.04.
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. Original-Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/glibc-team/glibc Original-Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/glibc-team/glibc.git
Package: locales-all Architecture: amd64 Version: 2.31-0ubuntu9 Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: extra Section: localization Source: glibc Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: GNU Libc Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 221704 Breaks: locales (« 2.13-17) Filename: pool/main/g/glibc/locales-all_2.31-0ubuntu9_amd64.deb Size: 10609836 MD5sum: f3781a377d6357f8c36c5b7a09079030 SHA1: ad0d84e03772045ca39e4b9c35c6b4d1a01fcb4c SHA256: 17364ef23371f4ba6f526b90c06cd771c737438cec2d58d287ac288c7c115a1f Homepage: https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/libc.html Description-en: GNU C Library: Precompiled locale data 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 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 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 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 locales-all using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install locales-all
How To Uninstall locales-all on Ubuntu 20.04
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 Ubuntu 20.04, 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 Ubuntu 20.04 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
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install locales-all package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.