How To Install locales on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install locales on Kali Linux.
What is locales
locales is:
Machine-readable data files, shared objects and programs used by the C library for localization (l10n) and internationalization (i18n) support.
This package contains tools to generate locale definitions from source files (included in this package). It allows you to customize which definitions actually get generated. This is a space-saver over how this package used to be, with all locales generated by default. This created a package that unpacked to an excess of 30 megs.
There are three methods to install locales 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 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install locales using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install localesInstall locales Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install locales using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install localesInstall locales 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 updateAfter updating apt database, We can install locales using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install localesHow To Uninstall locales on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the locales package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove localesUninstall locales And Its Dependencies
To uninstall locales and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove localesRemove locales Configurations and Data
To remove locales configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge localesRemove locales configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove locales configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge localesDependencies
locales have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install locales package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.