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When I say broken "sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales" does not yield an interface that allows you to select and deselect locales. It simply generates the locales mentioned in "/var/lib/locales/supported.d/local" file. Therefore if you want to generate a bunch of locales you will need to add them to this file and re-run "dpkg-reconfigure locales".
NOTE: One locale per line.
For a list of valid locales you can search through "/usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED".
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‘sudo’ should be used with the dpkg-reconfigure command (enabling the command to be issued as the super user).
That kind of information should not be left out or assumed when you’re giving instructions on how to manipulate the base functioning of a system.
@greg
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to Greg Rundlett:
mentioning the sudo notice is kinda redundant — if the user is unfamiliar with absolutely basic unix/linux/ubuntu concepts, what on earth he tries to do with locales?
To add a locale:
sudo locale-gen [locale-name…]
Such as:
sudo locale-gen fr_FR.UTF-8
That will add the locale to /var/lib/locales/supported.d/local and generates the locale data for that locale.
That’s documented in locale-gen’s man page.
To remove a locale, you still need to edit the supported.d files by hand though.
In fact, in Jaunty, /var/lib/locales/supported.d/local is not enough, you need to edit the other files in that folder: /var/lib/locales/supported.d/en for instance.
There is a package for Ubuntu that can take care of removing locales: localepurge
You can run(!) it issueing:
$ sudo apt-get install localepurge
For more information see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LocaleConf
There is a package for Ubuntu that can take care of removing locales and locale related files (e.g. man pages): localepurge
You can install/run it issueing:
sudo apt-get install localepurge
For more information see
http://pwet.fr/man/linux/administration_systeme/localepurge
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LocaleConf
What also should help to understand which files are involved is running locale in verbode mode:
locale -a -v
It shows that all generate locales are located in /usr/lib/locale/, which you may remove if unneeded.
If error messages are displayed when issuing the locale command, e.g.
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
… make sure the file /etc/default/locales exists and has content similar to this:
LANG=”en_US”
LANGUAGE=”en_US:en”
There is a package for Ubuntu that can take care of removing locales and locale related files (e.g. man pages): localepurge
You can install/run it issueing:
sudo apt-get install localepurge
For more information see
http://pwet.fr/man/linux/administration_systeme/localepurge
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LocaleConf
What also should help to understand which files are involved is running locale in verbode mode:
locale -a -v
It shows that all generate locales are located in /usr/lib/locale/, which you may remove if unneeded.
If error messages are displayed when issuing the locale command, e.g.
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
… make sure the file /etc/default/locales exists and has content similar to this:
LANG=”en_US”
LANGUAGE=”en_US:en”
Essentially, what I did to clean up my locales is:
1. Removed all unneeded locales from /var/lib/locales/supported.d/en
2. Create /etc/default/locales (with content as above)
3. Delete all generated locale data: rm -rfv /usr/lib/locale/*
4. Re-generate new locales: locale-gen
Good luck!
The file named “local” in the aforementioned folder contained en_US.UTF-8 for me. But I noticed that it was also re-generating the locales for all other English configurations, so I *removed* the file named “en” and ran “dpkg-reconfigure locales” and all others are gone now.
I had not noticed that before, but I had thought that only en_US.UTF-8 was configured.
This was on 10.10.